From: "Stathy G. Touloumis" Date: 2002-03-20T03:14:56+09:00 Subject: RE: Development of Windows version of Ruby This is so true especially considering Ruby's threaded support. There should be no reason to fork in a MSWindows environment. The only reason for ActivePerl to work on some type of 'fork' emulation is because of Perl's lack of thread support. > "how important is the lack of a True Fork" > > Chris