On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 01:41:34PM -0800, Peter Scott wrote: > At 11:15 PM 2/25/02 +0100, Paul Johnson wrote: > >On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 10:01:25PM +0200, Mohammed A. Hassan wrote: > > > > > How can I use sockets in Perl? > > > >I would suggest starting off with > > > > perldoc -f socket > > perldoc Socket > > Ooh, how low-level.
Yeah. I'm one of those funny people who like to understand the basics before moving on to the higher level interface. :-) I suspect that this is why I don't get on well with Visual XXX. Everything is fine until you want to do something which isn't catered for by the interface. Then you realise there is black magic going on behind the scenes and you can't access it. But that's another rant :-) > I'd suggest rather IO::Socket. And if the OP can spring for it, Lincoln > Stein's Network Programming in Perl book. Yes, good. Though I did say starting off with. If you follow the doc trail you do get to IO::Socket, although not to LDS's book. I was going to give just the first reference ... -- Paul Johnson - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pjcj.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
