actually, I guess I wasn't very clear..
what I want to do is read from the socket realtime parsing data as its sent not waiting for the "\n" to be able to process that line..

hrm.. does that make sense? basically what I'm trying to simulate here is a "telnet host; traceroute otherhost" and see the little "*" or the hops REALTIME.. not wait for 3 timeouts on each little "*" to process the line. this isn't exactly what I'm doing I'm interacting with a program that writes unbuffered to a handle, but it appears that somewhere the sockets I'm creating are not allowing me to read from them unbuffered like telnet or ssh sessions would..

-brad.. looking at Expect.pm

In reply to Re: Re: how do I read from a socket one byte at a time? by reyjrar
in thread how do I read from a socket one byte at a time? by reyjrar

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