Assuming you don't have $/ set, the problem may be that perl is receiving a partial line from the read or recv it uses. Recall that even though it looks like a read from a keyboard, it is reading from a socket. The TCP protocol does not necessarily deliver data in the chunks (e.g. lines) in which it was sent. There are no data boundries in TCP (use UDP for that). While the camel book examples just use 
while($line = <SOCK>)

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to read, they read small messages.

In general, when you read from a TCP socket you need to be sure you got a whole message (a line in your case) and continue reading until you can verify that you got the whole message.

You can test with something like this: 

$| = 1; # remove buffering
while($input = <STDIN>){
    # maybe process the input
    print $input;
}

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In reply to Re: Server script through inetd by traveler
in thread Server script through inetd by evilstevel

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