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Re: [MacPerl] ParallelUserAgent and MacPerl

At 04.00 -0400 1998.07.16, Jeff at MacTech wrote:
>Has anyone tried using the ParallelUserAgent distribution (from the CPAN)
>with MacPerl? (It is an extension of the LWP dist, allowing you to
>download multiple Web pages in parallel.)
>
>I tried but encountered some resistance, and since I remembered that LWP
>needed some porting to allow its use with MacPerl I thought I'd check
>before trying further.

I think that is the LWPng distribution, right?  If so, I believe it uses
forking and/or threads, which MacPerl does not yet have, so it would not
work.

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