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in thread Terminal across network

Thanx for the rejoinder. I really appreciate. Now the requirement is clear to me. Let me work on it and come up with some code. However, it would be very kind of you, if you can direct me to more low level design. I mean in which machine perl script should be executed, how should I process inputs in STDIN. Should the window should be created by perl script.Frankly speaking, picture is not crystal clear to me.
cheers Rock

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Re^5: Terminal across network
by castaway (Parson) on Oct 21, 2004 at 09:56 UTC
    Here's a snippet from one I wrote earlier. (A perl telnet client actually, which seems to be essentially what you want) :
    my $sockets = new IO::Select(); $sockets->add(\*STDIN); my $tel = new IO::Socket::INET( PeerAddr => $hostname, PeerPort => $port, Proto => 'tcp', Timeout => 60 ); die "Can't connect to $hostname ($!)" unless $tel; $sockets->add($tel); while(1) { my @handles; @handles = $sockets->can_read(0.5); foreach $handle (@handles) { if($handle == $tel) { $data = <$tel>; last if(!$data); print STDOUT $data; } elsif ($handle == \*STDIN) { $line = <STDIN>; chomp($line); if ($line eq 'q' || $line eq 'quit') { $finish = 1; last; } else { print $tel $line."\r\n"; } } } }
    I've simplified it some, you will need to probably read from the telnet socket using recv instead of <>, since this will hang when telnet sends lines without endling newline characters (which it is apt to do).

    C.

      Started working on the project. It seems I am looking for something like this. "http://www.broadwayinfo.com/" Any inputs are welcome.
      cheers! Rock