in reply to opening a port

This is certainly not a perl question, and the answer depends very much upon what you want to do. I suggest you take a look at getting an ftp demon running on your machine (easy if you are running unix not so for windows)

The principles of getting this setup and working are well outside the scope of PM I suggest you try and find a more appropriate forum. Perl is a programming language you are looking for an application. Take a look at the usenet for more info.

If I have completely missjudged the question and you really are looking for a perl solution then take a look at Net::FTpServer


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Zigster