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socket help with long text blocks
Hi -- I am testing perl scripts to send/receive. The receiver runs on linux. I have an identical sender script that I invoke either on the same linux box, or on a windows XP box. If the file I'm sending contains a long-ish block of text (more than about 2K), the linux -> linux transfer seems... -
perl send and receive scripts
Hi group -- I'm working more on perl scripts to send and receive HL7 messages. Attached are two very simple scripts that I took from O'Reilly Advanced Perl Programming book (pgs 192 - 193). I'm working with two systems, one XP, the other RedHat 9.0. The scripts work if: 1. sending/receiving... -
IO::Socket::INET -- use read or recv?
Hi to any and all -- I'm trying to build a script to listen on a port, accept an incoming connection, and write the incoming data to a file. I've seen some examples, but am confused by using read or recv. I've also seen something like: ... while ($new_sock = $sock->accept()) { while...
