note Marshall <blockquote><i>Is it advisable to use the Perl's fork() emulation in Windows in “production” code? </i></blockquote> Windows just doesn't do "fork" very well. Threads are the way to go with Windows, but that model is more complex. [BrowserUK] knows a lot about how to do this on Windows. I would say that emulate behavior X on Y, often doesn't work out that well. 989766 989817