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jettero has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

It seems like this should be a relatively simple thing to do. If feels like it should be 30 lines. However, all my attempts to get this to work have made me feel like a real perl newbie. To tell you the truth, I can't even get a simple two threaded socket to work.

More than once I considered giving up and just using C... Please tell me that's not the best option!

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