Dear Monks,

Am working on interfacing an application to BASE24-eps running in IBM AIX. Am connected to the server through a LAN. The Base24-eps server is configured to send out echo messages at interval.

When I run the client, the BASE24-eps log shows that am connected.

When I run the server that should listen to the echo messages coming from the Base24-eps, the server simply wait until I kill it - returning 0 bytes (while the Base24-eps's log shows it has sent a lot of bytes)

In order to ascertain if the Base24-eps server was sending echo test messages, I designed a vb app with winsock control, when I ran the app I immediately received the echo test message.

My question is: Can Perl not handle Base24-eps data format? If it can, how should I go about coding my solution?

Thanks

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