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.
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 starting
9 http://www.yahoo.com/Computers_and_Internet/Standards/RFCs/
11 The RFC implemented in this distribution are
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
25 The latest version of libnet is available from the Comprehensive Perl
26 Archive Network (CPAN). To find a CPAN site near you see:
28 http://www.perl.com/CPAN
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:
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:
46 perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=~/perl
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
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
58 will be stored in a file called libnet.cfg which will be installed
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.
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
69 before running the Makefile.PL.
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.
81 The demos directory does contain a few demo scripts. These should be
82 run from the top directory like
84 demos/smtp.self -user my-email-address -debug
86 However I do not guarantee these scripts to work.
90 Questions about how to use this library should be directed to the
91 comp.lang.perl.modules USENET Newsgroup. Bug reports and suggestions
92 for improvements can be sent to me at <gbarr@pobox.com>.
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.
100 © 1996-2000 Graham Barr. All rights reserved.
102 This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
103 it under the same terms as Perl itself.