------------------------------------------------ On Fri, 7 Feb 2003 12:39:14 -0600, "Dan Muey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Any ideas/different modules/etc.. > > > > > > > Though my understanding may not be complete, and it would > > take two scripts and may not be portable off of *nix systems, > > I hate to have to do 2 scripts although I see what you're saying. > I wonder if it would work if I was to assign a filehandle to the variable somehow > > I'll take a gander at perldoc -q filehandle and see what I can see > > I'll try to test this by hand and see what happens and let the list know > Meanwhile any ideas/wisdom is always appreciated > The ohter natural way would be to pull the source of Net::FTP into your script, I assume it is opening a socket connection, handling the protocol initialization, etc. for an ftp transfer then just opening the local file and piping the data into the socket, granted doing this yourself is a pain and is the reason why using the module is nice, but then you could always just write the contents to a temp file and ftp that then remove the temp file, so I am assuming the desire to do this directly is there..... may also have a look at perldoc -f pipe ... http://danconia.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]