Hiya Fastolfe...

I checked out POE (when you said architecture I got to thinking "hardware", actually its a perl module available from CPAN for anyone curious), and Im going to give it a lookover this evening.

What you said about IO::Select is something everyone else has said to me. However, IO::Select is what the module is using. I actually am not doing any of the socketting. I wanted to be able to just launch a lot of processes and not deal with them until they had something to say. Like, for instance, in bash if i were do this: 

$ cat /etc/services & cat /etc/sendmail.cf

[download]

is going to get me lines to the terminal from both files, roughly intermingled. I dont see why I shouldnt be able to do this from within perl, as what I am actually doing is pretty nonintense. If this clarifies things and youre able to suggest something else, by all means do. Otherwise I'm going to have a look over POE and see how relevant it is and whether I can actually grok it.

Thanks again,
deprecated.

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