Re: how does file gets send to remote machine using perl

Chas. Owens wrote:
> On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 7:46 PM, Richard Lee <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> Hi,
>>
>> Someone wrote a perl script which manipulate a file and sent to number of
>> remote system.
>> I ported that exact script to my local machine but I don't see anything
>> going out.
>> Peeking into the script, I see no special module being used and no
>> ftp/sftp/scp or anything like that being used.
>>
>> Does perl have the ability to transfer file?
>> I guess I need to understand networking in general when it comes to
>> programming(i have no idea).
>>
>> Any idea or pointer would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>> thanks.(cannot cp and paste work script here since it's company's policy)
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> Does it use IO::Socket?
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It's really weird. It's excuting another perl program to send the file 
but that program uses no modules nor external programs.
File still gets sent and I was wondering how it was doing it.
Maybe we are chasing ghost here since i cannot even provide the script.. 
just wanted to bring it up...

But thank you.