Thanks to the monks for the answer to Streaming to a socket it worked brilliently when my client was working at the command promt. 

while (defined($buf = <$sock>){
    print $buf;
}

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However I have tried to display this in a Tk gui but the text does not display until all the data has been returned. This is what I have tried 

use IO::Socket;

use Tk;

    my $mw = new MainWindow();
    my $b = $mw->Button(-text=>'GO', -command=>\&conn)->pack();
    my $t = $mw->Text()->pack();
    #$|++;
    #tie *OUT, 'Tk::Text', $t;

    $t->focus();
MainLoop;

sub conn{
    tie *STDOUT, 'Tk::Text',$t;
    $|++;

    $sock = new IO::Socket::INET(PeerAddr => 'myhost',
                             PeerPort => '800',
                             Proto    => 'tcp');
                        
    die unless $sock;
    
    while (defined($buff = <$sock>)){
        print $buff;
    }
    
}

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Is it possible to get a live stream to the widget?

In reply to Streaming into tk text widgets by Scarborough

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