tos@VRANZ /cygdrive/t/tos/tmp
# cat sndr 
#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use IO::Socket;

my $socket=new IO::Socket::INET (PeerAddr => 'homer',
                              PeerPort => 1960,
                              Proto => 'tcp'
                             );
die "couldn't create socket: $!" unless $socket;

foreach (1..3) {
  print $socket "message $_\n";
  $socket->flush();
}
print $socket "ls\n";
$socket->flush();

close ($socket);