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

Hi.. i use verio for my hosting and they don't have net:ftp module.. just ftp.pm. Just wondering what the difference is.. and suggestions on how to use net::ftp if my hosting site doesn't have it? mew.

Lisa

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(bbfu) Re: Difference between ftp.pm and net:ftp ?
by bbfu (Curate) on Apr 17, 2001 at 23:18 UTC

    If you have shell access, the way to find out if premchai21 is correct would be to change to the directory containing FTP.pm and type `perldoc ./FTP.pm'. You can then examine the POD to see if it is, in fact, Net::FTP (my guess is that it probably is).

    If you don't have shell access, just download the .pm file to somewhere that you do have shell access (or at least can examine the file in a text-editor) and just read the file yourself, scanning for the POD or some other indication of the name.

    It is possible, however unlikely, that the file they have is a hand-rolled, site-specific file. I doubt it, though.

    HTH

    bbfu
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Re: Difference between ftp.pm and net:ftp ?
by premchai21 (Curate) on Apr 17, 2001 at 21:50 UTC