re: alarm function in UserAgent.pm
Paul Schinder (schinder@pjstoaster.pg.md.us)
Mon, 01 Apr 96 21:44:17 -0500
Saima Sami <ssami@vax2.cstp.umkc.edu> writes:
} Hi,
} I am working with Perl 5.001m for Windows NT. I have installed
} libwww-perl 5b6 on my computer. Now I am running test to make sure that
} everything works fine. Here is the biggest problem I have come across. The
} alarm() function is not implemented for the NT version. But useragent.pm
} uses it, as do other classes.
} I am fairly new to perl. Modifying perl programs is one thing but
} modifying Object-Oriented perl libraries for NT is quite a different animal.
} I shall appreciate any help I can get from anyone who has adapted the lib
} for NT.
} Thanks in advace.
I haven't adapted it for NT (heaven forbid!), but I do use 5b6 regularly
with MacPerl. MacPerl doesn't have alarm(), either. With
libwww-perl-5, it's trivial to turn all the alarm()'s off in any script that
uses LWP:
$ua = new LWP::UserAgent;
$ua->useAlarm(0);
This is documented. You should run the *.pm through pod2html.
}
} --saima
} administrator@cei.haag.umkc.edu
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