I have never used IO::Pipe before, but from the docs it looks like you need to do a 
while(<$pipe>)
{
  read from pipe...
}

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when I run it it cats out the file fine, Id probably replace IO::Pipe with a routine that reads the file one line at a time. At least from what Ive read, that seems to be the desired effect.

UPDATE
BTW, when running this code on Cygwin, I get the following: 
ted@skywalkerii ~
$ perl client.pl
2006/03/08-02:31:02 CONNECT TCP Peer: "127.0.0.1:1245" Local: "127.0.0
+.1:8097"
Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at server.pl
+ line 23.
Got: >Line =
<
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
# client

use strict;
use IO::Socket::INET;

my $sock = IO::Socket::INET->new(PeerHost => 'localhost',
                                 PeerPort => 8097,
                                 Proto => 'tcp',
                                );
die "Unable to connect" unless $sock->connected();

while (my $receive = <$sock>) {
    print "Got: >$receive<\n";
}

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after copying client.pl to /home/ted/foo/client

Ted
--
"That which we persist in doing becomes easier, not that the task itself has become easier, but that our ability to perform it has improved."
  --Ralph Waldo Emerson

In reply to Re^3: (Seemingly) Broken interactions between Net::Server and IO::Pipe? by tcf03
in thread (Seemingly) Broken interactions between Net::Server and IO::Pipe? by bmcatt

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