Hi, thanks for all the suggestions. I finally settled on using the Net::EasyTCP module. The pod contains a nice example. The reason I like it, is it has a built-in capability for password-protecting the socket, and has the options to compress and encrypt. These features would be hard to add to the simple socket scripts. I'm going to try and use gmpassos's techniques for the transfer, and incorporate them with Net::EasyTCP. When I get it working, I'll post them for you.