Hi, I've googled for this information and not found much. Probably just haven't found the right combination of keywords. I have a project I'm doing to learn about IRC better. I'm writing a bot in perl (without using the Net::IRC or POE modules) and I can connect to the server, join the channel I want to join, and pass commands to the bot via the channel and direct messages. What I'm running into trouble with is DCC. I want to be able to DCC chat with it and have it repeat what I tell it via DCC into the chat room. I have a socket set up at the beginning for connecting to the IRC server. This is the main socket, but I have to open a second socket for DCC, so I set one up if and only if the bot receives a DCC request from $controller (me). The problem is that I can open this second socket, but then it's the only socket I can communicate with until I send a "/dcc close chat $botnick" in the channel, THEN it repeats only the last thing it heard from the $dccsocket. I think this is due to blocking calls on the sockets I'm working with, but when I tried setting it to fcntl( $socket, O_NONBLOCKING ) (or at least I think that's what I did, it's been a while) it goes through the loop once then quits instead of looping until it receives input. Has anyone tried this before? Or done some other project that required both read and write access on 2 open sockets without that project being a server? I found an example of using select() but it appears to only work on server sockets. I need something that works with client sockets. I'm using this module for my sockets... IO::Socket. I'm also using perl 5.6.1 on cygwin on WinXP Home. I prefer NOT to use Net::IRC nor POE as I'm doing this project mostly as a learning experience and I feel I wouldn't be learning anything to resort to someone else's work. (and the only reason I'm using IO::Socket is that I've worked with normal sockets enough to know I can do it already.) If anyone needs to see the code for the sockets, please let me know. I'll post what I'm doing if it's necessary. Thank you for your time, Stefan
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