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- libnet is a collection of Perl modules which provides a simple
- and consistent programming interface (API) to the client side
- of various protocols used in the internet community.
-
- For details of each protocol please refer to the RFC. RFC's
- can be found a various places on the WEB, for a staring
- point look at:
-
- http://www.yahoo.com/Computers_and_Internet/Standards/RFCs/
-
- The RFC implemented in this distribution are
-
- Net::FTP RFC959 File Transfer Protocol
- Net::SMTP RFC821 Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
- Net::Time RFC867 Daytime Protocol
- Net::Time RFC868 Time Protocol
- Net::NNTP RFC977 Network News Transfer Protocol
- Net::POP3 RFC1939 Post Office Protocol 3
- Net::SNPP RFC1861 Simple Network Pager Protocol
-
- FUTURE WORK
-
- AVAILABILITY
-
- The latest version of libnet is available from the Comprehensive Perl
- Archive Network (CPAN). To find a CPAN site near you see:
-
- http://www.perl.com/CPAN
- ^ no slash here !!
-
- INSTALLATION
-
- In order to use this package you will need Perl version 5.002 or
- better. You install libnet, as you would install any perl module
- library, by running these commands:
-
- perl Makefile.PL
- make
- make test
- make install
-
- If you want to install a private copy of libnet in your home
- directory, then you should try to produce the initial Makefile with
- something like this command:
-
- perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=~/perl
-
-
- The Makefile.PL program will start out by checking your perl
- installation for a few packages that are recommended to be installed
- together with libnet. These packages should be available on CPAN
- (described above).
-
- CONFIGURE
-
- Normally when perl Makefile.PL is run it will run Configure which will
- ask some questions about your system. The results of these questions
- will be stored in a file called libnet.cfg which will be installed
- alongside the other perl modules in this distribution. The Makefile.PL
- will run Configure in an interactive mode unless these exists a file
- called libnet.cfg in the build directory.
-
- If you are on a system which cannot run this script you can create an
- empty file to make Makefile.PL skip running Configure. If you want to
- keep your existing settings and not run interactivly the simple run
-
- Configure -d
-
- before running the Makefile.PL.
-
- DOCUMENTATION
-
- See ChangeLog for recent changes. POD style documentation is included
- in all modules and scripts. These are normally converted to manual
- pages and installed as part of the "make install" process. You should
- also be able to use the 'perldoc' utility to extract documentation from
- the module files directly.
-
- DEMOS
-
- The demos directory does contain a few demo scripts. These should be
- run from the top directory like
-
- demos/smtp.self -user my-email-address -debug
-
- However I do not guarantee these scripts to work.
-
- SUPPORT
-
- Questions about how to use this library should be directed to the
- comp.lang.perl.modules USENET Newsgroup. Bug reports and suggestions
- for improvements can be sent to me at <gbarr@pobox.com>.
-
- Most of the modules in this library have an option to output a debug
- transcript to STDERR. When reporting bugs/problems please, if possible,
- include a transcript of a run.
-
- COPYRIGHT
-
- ⌐ 1996-2000 Graham Barr. All rights reserved.
-
- This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
- it under the same terms as Perl itself.
-
- Share and Enjoy!
-