RE: libwww on NT using 5.004_01 ???

Christopher Russo (crusso@mit.edu)
Wed, 18 Jun 1997 00:54:42 -0400


At 13:44 6/17/97 -0500, Fisher Mark wrote:
>Unless Perl 5.004_01 supports alarm(), libwww-perl isn't going to work.
>However, it does come with www.pl (in the bin directory), which does
>some of what libwww-perl does.


Far as I know, it still doesn't support it.  I threw together some files
(it's stretching it to call it a patch) that will allow libwww to run on
NT.  You can FTP them from

ftp://cogen.mit.edu/software/perl/libwww-win32-fix.zip

So far, it's worked for everyone I've talked to.

Seeya,
Chris