monks,

i am sort of re-asking this question. I would really like to be able to start an FTP process and check on its status periodically so that I can continue to update my GUI while my (several and large) files are transferring.

Right now my application only needs to run on Win32, but I am thinking about making it platform-independent. It does look like Win32::Internet will do this via the InternetStatusCallback function. Right now that looks like my best option, as I don't know too much about forking or threading...

Is there a reasonably simple way to use a common module like LWP or Net::FTP to do something like this: 

$ftp->start_job;

while ($ftp->status != $the_code_for_complete) {
  update_gui();
}

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-ariel

In reply to Asynchronous FTP 2 by ariel2

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