> I have a sco server which I hate to work on and I do not have full admin > rights to. (We don't own it). > > I would like to be able to take any data that is sent to a perl script and > then just send out to another perl script that would be waiting to accept > it. > > Then based on the contents of input lunch another perl script and send in > the data. > > I know this is vague but I will give you a for instance. > > Are archaic software is going to print an order out to a text file that is > piped rather then written to a perl script. I want that the script to then > send it to my linux server (Maybe with a daemon or something just waiting > for input) which then would see it read the first line which tell it that > hey we need to parse this data into this postscript template and then send > it off using sendfax(Hylafax). That parsing and send would be its own > script. > > The linux server would need to be able to accept more then 1 "transaction" > at a time. > > Any help would be greatly appreciated. > > TIA, > > Paul Kraus > ----------------------- > PEL Supply Company > Network Administrator > ----------------------- > 800 321-1264 Toll Free > 216 267-5775 Voice > 216 267-6176 Fax > www.pelsupply.com > -----------------------
Paul,
"Network Programming with Perl" by Stein is a good place to start. It discusses forking children, blocking and non-blocking I/O, among others, which will be considerations you'll want to make.
Tim
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