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1 | libnet is a collection of Perl modules which provides a simple |
| 2 | and consistent programming interface (API) to the client side | |
| 3 | of various protocols used in the internet community. | |
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| 5 | For details of each protocol please refer to the RFC. RFC's | |
| 6 | can be found a various places on the WEB, for a staring | |
| 7 | point look at: | |
| 8 | ||
| 9 | http://www.yahoo.com/Computers_and_Internet/Standards/RFCs/ | |
| 10 | ||
| 11 | The RFC implemented in this distribution are | |
| 12 | ||
| 13 | Net::FTP RFC959 File Transfer Protocol | |
| 14 | Net::SMTP RFC821 Simple Mail Transfer Protocol | |
| 15 | Net::Time RFC867 Daytime Protocol | |
| 16 | Net::Time RFC868 Time Protocol | |
| 17 | Net::NNTP RFC977 Network News Transfer Protocol | |
| 18 | Net::POP3 RFC1939 Post Office Protocol 3 | |
| 19 | Net::SNPP RFC1861 Simple Network Pager Protocol | |
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21 | FUTURE WORK |
| 22 | ||
| 23 | AVAILABILITY | |
| 24 | ||
| 25 | The latest version of libnet is available from the Comprehensive Perl | |
| 26 | Archive Network (CPAN). To find a CPAN site near you see: | |
| 27 | ||
| 28 | http://www.perl.com/CPAN | |
| 29 | ^ no slash here !! | |
| 30 | ||
| 31 | INSTALLATION | |
| 32 | ||
| 33 | In order to use this package you will need Perl version 5.002 or | |
| 34 | better. You install libnet, as you would install any perl module | |
| 35 | library, by running these commands: | |
| 36 | ||
| 37 | perl Makefile.PL | |
| 38 | make | |
| 39 | make test | |
| 40 | make install | |
| 41 | ||
| 42 | If you want to install a private copy of libnet in your home | |
| 43 | directory, then you should try to produce the initial Makefile with | |
| 44 | something like this command: | |
| 45 | ||
| 46 | perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=~/perl | |
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| 48 | ||
| 49 | The Makefile.PL program will start out by checking your perl | |
| 50 | installation for a few packages that are recommended to be installed | |
| 51 | together with libnet. These packages should be available on CPAN | |
| 52 | (described above). | |
| 53 | ||
| 54 | CONFIGURE | |
| 55 | ||
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56 | Normally when perl Makefile.PL is run it will run Configure which will |
| 57 | ask some questions about your system. The results of these questions | |
| d1be9408 | 58 | will be stored in a file called libnet.cfg which will be installed |
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59 | alongside the other perl modules in this distribution. The Makefile.PL |
| 60 | will run Configure in an interactive mode unless these exists a file | |
| 61 | called libnet.cfg in the build directory. | |
| 62 | ||
| 63 | If you are on a system which cannot run this script you can create an | |
| 64 | empty file to make Makefile.PL skip running Configure. If you want to | |
| 65 | keep your existing settings and not run interactivly the simple run | |
| 66 | ||
| 67 | Configure -d | |
| 68 | ||
| 69 | before running the Makefile.PL. | |
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70 | |
| 71 | DOCUMENTATION | |
| 72 | ||
| 73 | See ChangeLog for recent changes. POD style documentation is included | |
| 74 | in all modules and scripts. These are normally converted to manual | |
| 75 | pages and installed as part of the "make install" process. You should | |
| 76 | also be able to use the 'perldoc' utility to extract documentation from | |
| 77 | the module files directly. | |
| 78 | ||
| 79 | DEMOS | |
| 80 | ||
| 81 | The demos directory does contain a few demo scripts. These should be | |
| 82 | run from the top directory like | |
| 83 | ||
| 84 | demos/smtp.self -user my-email-address -debug | |
| 85 | ||
| 86 | However I do not guarantee these scripts to work. | |
| 87 | ||
| 88 | SUPPORT | |
| 89 | ||
| 90 | Questions about how to use this library should be directed to the | |
| 91 | comp.lang.perl.modules USENET Newsgroup. Bug reports and suggestions | |
| 686337f3 | 92 | for improvements can be sent to me at <gbarr@pobox.com>. |
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93 | |
| 94 | Most of the modules in this library have an option to output a debug | |
| 95 | transcript to STDERR. When reporting bugs/problems please, if possible, | |
| 96 | include a transcript of a run. | |
| 97 | ||
| 98 | COPYRIGHT | |
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| 686337f3 | 100 | © 1996-2000 Graham Barr. All rights reserved. |
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101 | |
| 102 | This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify | |
| 103 | it under the same terms as Perl itself. | |
| 104 | ||
| 105 | Share and Enjoy! |