Assuming you cant get Net::SFTP set up for some reason (im trying now and I think it will probably fail), then I would look into geting psftp to do the work for me and have the Perl script just play manager. If you code C then you may be happy to learn that the source looks pretty clean, and accordngly shouldnt be too hard to create a nicer interface to it.

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_{<Elian> And I do take a kind of perverse pleasure in having an OO assembly language...}