Doesn't Perl have a socket module?  I'm no Perl monger, but if you use
sockets, then your Perl can exist on the e3K or on other machine(s) if you
need to scale.

Just a thought.

Mark Wonsil
4M Enterprises, Inc.

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Subject: [HP3000-L] perl and message files


How anyone used perl to do i/o against message files (one in and one out)?

We'd like to use perl to interact with stdin and stdlist from another
(persistent) application process (I'm sure you all can guess what for?)
- anybody BTDT?  That is, can perl pretend it is the applications' user
reading output and sending input back and forth?  The examples we have
all show a one time send and receive.

Thanks,
Richard "Trying not to reinvent the horse and buggy" Gambrell
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