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Re: TAPx::Parser 0.50_06 -- Now on Windows!

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From:
Abe Timmerman
Date:
January 21, 2007 05:29
Subject:
Re: TAPx::Parser 0.50_06 -- Now on Windows!
Message ID:
45B36A8D.3030200@ztreet.demon.nl
Ovid wrote:
> --- demerphq <demerphq@gmail.com> wrote:

[SNIP]

>> Likewise you should review the work of the smoke suite for handling
>> oddball cases like VMS, you certainly shouldnt think that windows
>> will
>> be the oddest platform your code will run on if it is core
>> integrated.
> 
> Well, so far, I have one bugfix in their to handle a special case on
> vms, but otherwise, I've never gotten a failure report for it and I
> don't have access to a vms system.  Very frustrating.


I see now that on OpenVMS you also use IPC::Open3, that in turn uses fork(). 
fork() is not implemented on OpenVMS, so this will not work.

Although I'm not a VMS expert, I do have a testdrive account, and can test 
some stuff if that helps.

-- Abe.

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