A2.

use Win32::NetResource;

    $ShareInfo = {
                    'path' => "C:\\MyShareDir",
                    'netname' => "MyShare",
                    'remark' => "It is good to share",
                    'passwd' => "",
                    'current-users' =>0,
                    'permissions' => 0,
                    'maxusers' => -1,
                    'type'  => 0,
                    };
   
    Win32::NetResource::NetShareAdd( $ShareInfo,$parm )
        or die "unable to add share";
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A1 File::MimeInfo::Magic does what you want and works on Win32.

Here's a simple file-type reporter based on File::Type, and of course our wierd friend, File::Find:

use strict;
use warnings;
use File::Type;
use File::Find;

find(   
    sub {
        -f && print "$_\t => ",
              File::Type->new()->checktype_filename($_),
              $/
            for $File::Find::name; 
    }, 
    scalar(@ARGV) ? @ARGV : './'
);
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It's a little concise; I was trying to have some fun with it. One hint: The 'for' clause is used to alias $_ to $File::Find::name so that I wouldn't have to keep typing it all over the place. Also, since I only use $obj->checktype_filename() once, I chose to not store the object's ref in a variable, but rather, just dereference the return value of File::Type->new(). ...a couple of golf tricks that didn't seem to hurt readability too much.

Thanks david, I will just try it out with the snippet that you have written here. I think this in tandem with the netresource module should just do the job for me ...

I like File::MMagic.

The sources for file are available here if you want to try to compile it in Windows.

Oh no!!! I am not going down that road. I have already seen File::Type on CPAN, but am just concerned about stability issues. This script will be running every once in a while and it just has to be dependable. Thats my only concerns. If it comes to it, I would rather sacrifice time and bandwidth in just mirroring whole directories, since it is on the local network. I was just hoping to get some recomendations on any other modules that people might already be familiar with.

Thanks anyway