Hello everyone. In a service (for the Unix folk: daemon) I am copying lots of smallish files with FTP (using Net::FTP). I'm copying them one by one which takes a lot of time so I'd like to speed it up by opening several connections and sending several files at once. I tried to use Win32::Internet asynchronously, but wasn't able to get anywhere.

Did anyone try succeed to FTP with Win32::Internet asynchronously? Or with some other module?

I can fork() in the service and create a few worker threads (yeah, it'd be threads only under Win32) and pipe them the names of the files to send (I have done this kind of thing already), but I'd like to know if there is an easier solution.

I'm using ActivePerl v5.6.1 build 631 under Win2k Pro&Server

  Thanks, Jenda

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