[Mpls-pm] Perl Socket programming problem with Windows

[Troy E. Hove Tausend]

  I agree, you should have gotten a better worded response, but I suspect part 
of the reason you got the response you did is precisely because most of the 
people on this list are serious Perl programmers who know the language, 
modules and reference documentation very well and I'm afraid that it is quite 
apparent from your program sample that you have a lot to learn yet about 
programming in Perl.

  You are on the right track trying to use non-blocking recv(), but honestly 
this is the kind of thing were there is hundreds of cases of examples and 
working modules that can do this for you and have already addressed all the 
icky details that you probably haven't even really though about yet.

  You might try using perldoc to read perlipc as suggested by the first 
response.  I'd also recommend looking in the Perl CookBook, Learning Perl and 
Programming Perl books from O'Reilly.

  You also may want to look at Perl modules like Net::Server (available from 
CPAN : http://search.cpan.org/search?query=Net+Server&mode=all ) which will 
provide you with a working Networking Server leaving you free to focus on 
doing what you really need to do which is work out your protocol.

  Next time you post a question to a User Group list, you might try reading 
the following first and following the advice given, it will help you get the 
answer you want.  How To Ask Questions The Smart Way 
(http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html)

   Good luck with your program.

On Wednesday 17 August 2005 05:20 pm, Paul.Krcma at wellsfargo.com wrote:
> You know what? I gave up on user group email lists along time ago,
> because of replies like your's. And here I was, thinking this email
> group would be professional. Some things never change.
>
> I just subscribed to this group. It's time to unsubscribe.
>