I am trying to use Net::Ping here at work, and I get the following error:
C:\Perl\eg\Scripts>perl pingythingy.pl
The Unsupported function alarm function is unimplemented at C:/Perl/li
+b/Net/Ping
.pm line 308.

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Here is the code for the program, a copy of the Camel book: 
use Net::Ping;
my $hostname = '10.17.1.60';
$timeout = 10;
print "Printer is up\n" if pingecho($hostname, $timeout);

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I cannot find any documentation stating that Alarm is not supported in the
Win32 Environment. Has anyone else encountered this problem? And what did
you do to get around it?
Thanks in advance

In reply to Alarm Implemented in Win32? by buzzcutbuddha

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