Re: alarm function in UserAgent.pm

John Cope (john@achilles.net)
Mon, 1 Apr 1996 21:51:27 -0500 (EST)


Saima,

On Mon, 1 Apr 1996, Saima Sami wrote:

> 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. 

Edit LWP/UserAgent.pm,  Under sub new turn off the alarm function by 
specifying 'useAlarm' => 0

This is as far as I have gotten.  I'm stuck on getting (understanding) 
the Autoloader for Socket.

-John

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