OP here. Looks like the MyTelnet->_fillbuf function is never actually called, due to some inheritance problem.

Darned if I can see why inheritance doesn't work as expected:

#!/usr/bin/perl --

my $connectObj = MyTelnet->new();
$connectObj->open(
    Host        => 'iberiamud.mooo.com',
    Port        => 5900,
);

while (1) {}        # Poor man's main loop

{ package MyTelnet;

    use base ("Net::Telnet");
    
    sub _fillbuf {
        print "This function is never called\n";
        print "Base class's ->_fillbuf function is called instead\n";
    }
}
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Regarding the call to inflate. My production code (which probably has no inheritance problems, as it generates billions of debug messages that actually appear) was producing:

Error: No output
status: data error
msg: incorrect header check
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I tried ignoring everything before the first ASCII 120 character, which is where the zlib stream is supposed to start. The first couple of calls to Compress::Zlib->inflate then succeed. After that, we're back to square one, with new error messages:

Error: No output
status: data error
msg: invalid code lengths set
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The zlib docs suggest this kind of error appears if the compressed stream is corrupted, but I haven't yet found anything in Net::Telnet that might be responsible.

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