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Hi all,

I'm having some trouble understanding how to get a "remote directory
listing" using the "ftp.pl" package off CPAN.

Using the "Basic usage" section at the top of the "ftp.pl" package, I can
connect, identify, change to binary mode & get a file. I can't work out
how to get a directory listing however. It looks like there should be a
routine called ftp'dir(), but it's not implemented. There are the routines
ftp'dir_open() and ftp'dir_close() but these look like low level private
internal calls to me.

Any suggestions??

Here's my code:




#!/usr/local/bin/perl

unshift(@INC,".");

require "ftp.pl";


if (&ftp'open("machine.domain",21,1,2) != 1)
{
die "failed to open ftp connection";
}

if (!&ftp'login("user","passwd"))
{
die "failed to login";
}

&ftp'type("I");

&ftp'cwd("/");

&ftp'dir(""); #???????????????????????????????????????

if(!&ftp'get("file.txt","",0))
{
die "failed to get file";
}

&ftp'quit();

exit(0);



Thanks In Advance,

Chris B
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