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Re: [MacPerl] multithreading?



At 14.51 -0400 1998.09.12, Ken Truitt wrote:
>I'm interested in tying a data manager script i wrote to a client for
>compuserve that would be used in a mud there.  I can't think of how a
>program could function well without having separate forks for reading
>and writing (multithreading).  Is there any way to do this or to
>effectively emulate this with MacPerl 5?

Well, there is no forking in MacPerl, and threads won't be along for at
least several months, I am guessing.  I don't know of any easy way around
this current limitation.

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