Take a look at "Advanced Perl" in the networking chapter for an implementation of a client/server. You can find the example scripts at http://examples.oreilly.com/advperl/; when you unzip the file, look in the Networking directory for the Msg.pm and RPC.pm. You should be able to get an idea of how to use them from the demo scripts.

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