| At 10:46 AM 2/8/2001 -0600, Forrest Cahoon wrote:
| >I'm sorry this message is so long, but we are having some real trouble
| >using sockets from perl here, and I desperately want to get to the
| >bottom of it. It appears that perl programs using sockets on our
| >OpenVMS system immediately echo back any messages they receive.
|
| You can't use C's stdio calls on sockets on VMS. (Which means no print or
| <>) If you need to read or write to them, use sysread and syswrite.
I just added to the repository a patch which converts prints() to sockets
into write()s under the hood; it may halp you out here. Haven't had
problems with <> on sockets (other than hanging), so I can't add much
there (not that I've tested it extensively).
Regards,
Charles Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED]
