Hi, I've written up a client and a server. They both work fine if I have only one client connected at a time. Here is the begining code of my server: 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use File::Copy;
use IO::Socket;
use Net::hostent;              # for OO version of gethostbyaddr

#open(CONFIG, "GremlinServerConfig.txt") || die("Can't open GremlinSer
+verConfig.txt: $!");

my($resultsDir) = ".\\results";

my(@romFile, @baseState, @appName, @currentSeed, @maxSeed, @seedsPerPa
+cket, @switchEvent, @maxEvent, @outputFile,@status);
my($currentJob);
my($CONNECTION_FAILLURE) = -1;
my($SUCCESS) = 0;

$PORT = 9000;                  # pick something not in use

$server = IO::Socket::INET->new( Proto     => 'tcp',
                                 LocalPort => $PORT,
                                 Listen    => SOMAXCONN,
                                 Reuse     => 1);

die "can't setup server" unless $server;
print "[Server $0 accepting clients]\n";

while ($client = $server->accept())
{
    $client->autoflush(1);
    $hostinfo = gethostbyaddr($client->peeraddr);
    printf "[Connect from %s]\n", $hostinfo->name || $client->peerhost
+;
    print $client "Command? \n.\n";
    while (<$client>)
    {
        next unless /\S/;       # blank line
        if    (/quit|exit/i)    { last;                        }
        elsif (/date|time/i)    { printf $client "%s\n", scalar localt
+ime;    }
        elsif (/request/i )
        {
            # Check if there are any jobs to process
            if ($#romFile > -1)
            {
                $test = $#romFile;
                print $client "something there...$test\n";
                HandleRequest($client);
            }
            else
            {
                print $client "All jobs finished\n";
            }

            redo;
        }
        elsif (/results/i )     { HandleResults($client);            }
        elsif (/add/i)        { CreateProject($client);            }
        elsif (/view/i)        { PrintAll($client);                }
        else
        {
            print $client "Commands: quit date add view\n";
        }
    }
    continue
    {
          print $client "Command?\n.\n";
    }
}

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How could I go about making this work for multiple connections? If I connect from one client, and try to connect from another, the second client is blocked until the first one quits. Is there a way to have multiple simultaneous connections? Thanks

In reply to multiple socket connection by Anonymous Monk

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