In your client, you should turn auto-flush on, by setting $| to a non-zero value. A snippet of how this would look like in your client code:
...
# This message is print, so I do get here!
# At the same tiome the server starts sending bars
$|++; # <-- Turns on automatic flusing after each write...
while (1) {
$line = <SOCK>;
print "\nGot1: ", $line;
...
Update: I've been playing with the code myself, and as tye pointed out in a reply below: you need to unbuffer the Client handle at server-side! This would make your server code look like this:
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$SIG{CHLD} = \&REAPER;
for ( ; $paddr = accept(Client,Server); close Client) {
# This will correctly set the autoflushing...
select( ( select(Client), $|++ )[0] );
my($port,$iaddr) = sockaddr_in($paddr);
my $name = gethostbyaddr($iaddr,AF_INET);
...
Success,
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