If you run perltidy over it you will also notice that the indentation seems odd - it never returns to the left margin. This is because you are one } short which perl notes as this script does not actually compile.

#!/bin/perl
use IO::Socket;
use IO::Select;
$/                = "\015\012";
$nconnections_new = 0;
$login            = "";
$maxconn          = SOMAXONN;
$local            =
  IO::Socket::INET->new( Proto => "tcp", LocalPort => "1234",
    Listen => $maxconn, Reuse => 1 ) or die "Can't open socket\n";
while ( $client = $local->accept ) {
    $client->autoflush(1);
    &start;

    sub start {
        print $client "This is a test BBS!\n\r";
        print $client "(C)reate new user      (L)ogin";
        print $client "\n\r";

        my $option = <$client>;
        chomp $option;
        $option = "\U$option\E";

        if ( $option eq "C" ) {
            print $client "<<<Create new user>>>\n\r";
            print $client "Login must be at least 6 characters.\n\r";
            &login;
        }

        elsif ( $option eq "L" ) {
            &logon;
        }

        else { &start; }

        sub login {
            $/ = "\015\012";
            print $client "username:";
            $login = <$client>;
            chomp $login;

            if ( $login eq "" ) {
                print $client "Must enter a username!\n\r";
                &login;
            }

            $/ = "\012";
            open( FILE1, "users.txt" )
              || print "Error occured while opening file";
            while (<FILE1>) {
                ( $first, $second ) = split /:/;
                print $first;
                if ( $login eq $first ) {
                    print $client
                      "Sorry this username has been taken, try again!\
+n\r";
                    &login;
                }
                $/ = "\015\012";
            }

            close(FILE1);

            if ( length($login) > 7 ) {
                print $client "Your username was longer than 6 charact
+ers!\n\r";
                &login;
            }

            $pass = password();

            sub password {
                print $client "Password:";
                $password = <$client>;
                chomp $password;
                print $client "\n\rRe-enter password:";
                $password2 = <$client>;
                chomp $password2;
                if ( $password ne $password2 ) {
                    print $client "Passwords do not match, try again!"
+;
                    &password;
                }
                return $password;
            }

            open( FILE, ">>users.txt" )
              || print "Error occured while opening file";
            print FILE "$login:$pass\n";
            close(FILE);
            print "File written..\n\r";
            exit;
        }
    }

    sub logon {
        print $client "test";
    }

    close $client;
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tachyon

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