Hi Monks,

I'm trying to build a simple Telnet client that will send an APACS style message to a host. Creating the simple Telnet client is not a problem, but whenever I send a character the client interprets them as ASCII.

For example, using the code below I would like to send the ASCII character STX (start of text), so I send the hex equivalent - "02". The problem is that this is sent as an ASCII "02", so the host side sees this as "30 32" (in hex) instead of one byte hex value "02". 
use IO::Socket::INET;
$MySocket=new IO::Socket::INET->new(PeerPort=>'$port',    Proto=>'tcp'
+,PeerAddr=>"$ip");
$MySocket->send("02");

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Any ideas how I can force the characters sent to "stay" in hex - even if this means using a different Perl module such as Net::Telnet?

Thanks in advance!

In reply to Terminal Client by cstrong

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