Mark Aran Aiken <marka@ee.mcgill.ca> writes: > 1) I gave up trying to write a client in Perl that would read from >the socket character-by-character. Perl seems bent on reading at least >a line at a time. Just use sysread, not read. Disabling echo after that should be trivial. Matthias ----- Matthias Neeracher <neeri@iis.ee.ethz.ch> http://err.ethz.ch/members/neeri.html "One fine day in my odd past..." -- Pixies, _Planet of Sound_