Perl - VC++ COM interaction for remotability

ramya2005 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Dear Users,

I have a COM server developed using (VC++ 6.0, ATL) to provide automation testing functionalities. I have to support Remotability in my project.

More about Remotability

I will run the Perl script in local machine and my COM server will run in a remote machine. When the user point to some files which are in local machine, I will process it using Perl. I have to provide the processed file to the COM layer running in remote machine.

What I am planning to do is to copy the file from local machine to the remote machine's public directory and give a "directory path+filename" file handle to the COM layer.

The requirements include file copying from the COM layer(Remote machine) to the Perl (local machine) at the end of testing.
Is there any inbuilt function in Perl to copy the files from local machine to the remote machine?

If you had similar requirement, but have different approach in solving this please let me know.
Any input is much appreciated!

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Re: Perl - VC++ COM interaction for remotability by eyepopslikeamosquito (Archbishop) on Aug 18, 2005 at 20:52 UTC
I don't really understand what you mean by "remotability". Many tools may be employed to perform automated testing on remote machines. Some that I know of are: Simple portable tools like rsh, ssh, rcp, ftp, nfs, telnet, cron, ... using Perl as a glue language to bind them together STAF sysinternals PsTools package (especially PsExec) Windows WMI	[reply]