use strict; use IO::Socket::INET; my $remote_host = "127.0.0.1"; my $remote_port = 950; my $socket; $socket = IO::Socket::INET->new(PeerAddr => $remote_host, PeerPort => $remote_port, Type => SOCK_STREAM, Proto => "tcp") || die "Problem: $!\n"; print $socket "sp100\r"; my $data = <$socket>; print STDOUT $data; close $socket;