After cobbling some stuff together, I got this working. Hope it helps someone else. Bill

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;
use warnings;

use IO::Handle;

eval {
    my $stdin = new IO::Handle;
       $stdin->fdopen( fileno( STDIN ), "r" ) || die "Cannot open STDIN";

    system "stty -icanon -isig -echo min 1 time 0";

    while ( my $char = $stdin->getc() ) {
        print "Up\n"     if ( ord( $char ) == 65 );  # up
        print "Down\n"   if ( ord( $char ) == 66 );  # down
        print "Right\n"  if ( ord( $char ) == 67 );  # right arrow
        print "Left\n"   if ( ord( $char ) == 68 );  # left arrow
        print "Return\n" if ( ord( $char ) == 10 );  # return key
        print "Delete\n" if ( ord( $char ) == 127 ); # delete key
        print "Esc\n"    if ( ord( $char ) == 27 );  # escape key
        print "Tab\n"    if ( ord( $char ) == 9 );   # tab key
        next             if ( ord( $char ) == 32 );  # skip on space key
        last             if ( $char =~ /q/ );        # break on q
        last             if ( $char =~ /\003/ );     # break on Ctrl-C
        last             if ( $char =~ /\032/ );     # break on Ctrl-Z
        print "ord: " . ord($char) . "\n";
    }
    system "stty icanon echo isig";
    exit(0);
};

if ( $@ ) {
    print "$@\n";
    system "stty icanon echo isig";
    exit(1);
}

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