Darren - Contractor.Westar Peterson wrote: > > Hello, all. I'm as green a Perl programmer as can be. As a matter of fact, > I am green in OO programming and network communications. I spent 12 years > maintaining FORTRAN code on 1970's mainframe computers. I do love > FORTRAN... > > But my boss has asked me to coordinate app execution on a handful of mixed > boxes on a small LAN. The boxes are W2K and Linux. A network savvy friend > of mine suggested Perl. As I work through a tutorial (Beginning Perl @ > learn.perl.org, anyone have chapter 11?) on Perl starting this morning, what > I really need immediate help with is TCP communication between a master app > and a slave app. As a base upon which to build I would like to set up a > script on one box that throws a message, any message, through any port to a > script on another box. The second script should loop until message is > received, then print and die. > > Would someone point me to source examples, or module documentation. I can > pick up things quickly, but when so much is so new and unexplored, I'm > afraid I really don't know where to start. Of course, I will work through > the tutorial to build some general language proficiency, but I surely would > love to quickly have a very simple communication example to run to bolster > my courage and to show off to the boss as a work in progress.
Hi Darren. Take a look at perldoc perlipc and check out the module IPC::Open2 which works fine on WXP and, I think, should be OK on W2K. HTH, Rob -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
