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connect SOCKET,NAME — 🔗 Attempts to connect to a remote socket, just like connect(2). ✅ Returns true if it succeeded, ❌ false otherwise. 📦 NAME should be a packed address of the appropriate type for the socket. 📚 See the examples in “Sockets: Client/Server Communication” in perlipc.