> It is for the school. Although I want to eventually learn Perl, I was > hoping there was some kind "canned" open source package or simple > "How-To" document that would point me in the right direction. Well, not that I know of, but it's entirely possible. Piping a serial connection over a network isn't exactly a common situation. :) However, given things like parallel IP, where the parallel port is connected to a network device, perhaps someone has done this. John -- # John Madden weez@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ICQ: 2EB9EA # FreeLists, Free mailing lists for all: //www.freelists.org # UNIX Systems Engineer, Ivy Tech State College: http://www.ivytech.edu # Linux, Apache, Perl and C: All the best things in life are free!