Well, that's the thing. Our ftp-shell would let you use whatever editor you want. It would even let you cat and grep and perl -e most things. Well, if we can think of a clever enough shell interface. We would definitely buffer the files with Net::FTP... the whole point is that you wouldn't have to think about it as an ftp client. It's a file manipulation shell for remote files.

Is there even a Net::scp or anything like that? I would happilly do scp support (though our mud doesn't support that) if there were such a thing. Perhaps I should look into authoring Net::scp. I assume one of the ssh's is open source?