alarm builtin function

Pascal Grostabussiat (pascal@azoria.com)
Wed, 18 Aug 1999 11:32:01 +0200


Hi.

I have developed a little application retrieving some information
on the net using HTTP protocol and the "www.pl" package developped
by Roy Fielding.

I do not have any problem running the application on a Sparc/Solaris
platform.

But I decided to test it on a PC/NT platform and ... :( for this
I downloaded the ActivePerl package available at:

http://www.activestate.com/ActivePerl/

And when running my script I get "alarm function not found". This
function is a builtin function present in the Unix Perl but it
does not seem to exist in the PC Perl variant :(

It there any work around ?

Best regards,
/Pascal.

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