I was daydreaming about this all day. I realized I don't know where to start. I'd like a Filesys::FTP or something wherein, I could invoke an arcane mount command that let me mount a remote ftp connection to a directory.

Maybe that sounds like pure evil ... Anyhoo, an ls of the mounted fs would do an ftp ls. cd's into the directory structure would cause all sorts of ftp directory tests. Any type of file manipulation would take place in some sort of buffer space and when it was all done (e.g. a file close or something) the file would be swapped with the remote copy. ...

I'm not sure about the logistics of it, but are there any perl tools that would help me with this evil project? I did spend some time looking for tools that would let me mount a file system and do evil voodo... I could not find any.

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