Server: #!c:\perl\bin\perl.exe use strict; use IO::Socket; my $server = IO::Socket::INET->new( Listen => 5, LocalAddr => 'localhost', LocalPort => 5498, Proto => 'tcp' ) or die "Can't create server socket: $!"; my $client = $server->accept; open FILE, ">out.txt" or die "Can't open: $!"; while (<$client>) { print $_; } close FILE; Client: #!c:\perl\bin\perl.exe use strict; use IO::Socket; my $server = IO::Socket::INET->new( PeerAddr => 'localhost', PeerPort => 5498, Proto => 'tcp' ) or die "Can't create client socket: $!"; open FILE, "labsearch.txt"; while () { print $server $_; } close FILE;