On Feb 18, 2008, at 1:42 PM, Eric Lease Morgan wrote: > How do I write a computer program that spawns many processes but > returns one result? Thank you for the many prompt and useful replies. I am added the link below simply for the historical records. (I may need it in the future. 0 It was given to me "in channel" by lbay (I think): http://search.cpan.org/~dlux/Parallel-ForkManager-0.7.5/ -- Eric Lease Morgan