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<node id="21005" title="How can I listen on a socket 'in the background?'" created="2000-07-04 13:16:35" updated="2005-08-14 16:57:21">
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categorized question</type>
<author id="11732">
QandAEditors</author>
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I have written a simple TCP 
chat server using [mod://IO:Socket] but once I get the server to 
listen, it will not go on to execute the rest of the 
program (because it waits for a connection).  Is there any 
way to start the one subroutine of the server listening in 
the background?</field>
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1842</field>
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