mark@cheers.jsc.nasa.gov (Mark Manning/Muniz Eng.) writes: } }You need to go to Paul J. Schinder's site and download the }libnet package. } }ftp://mors.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/MacPerl/Scripts/libnet-1.04.sit.hqx That's old, and the URL won't work. I'm about to put the latest version, 1.0505, there. I'll probably wait a few days to see if the libwww-perl-5.09 port I made today is functioning properly and put them both out at once. For now, go to <ftp://mors.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/MacPerl/Scripts/> and see which version I have there (1.05_02, I think). } }Also, you can get the hostname (ie: IP address) simply by }doing the following: } } $hostname = `hostname`; } }once you are connected to the ISP. The libnet package }helps you do FTP, NNTP, SMTP, and something else which I've }forgotten what it was. :-/ Anyway, this is how you get A client for almost everything except HTTP. It includes FTP, NNTP, SMTP, Time (both daytime and time), PH, SNPP (a pager protocol), POP3, and Telnet. }the IP address of what node you are on from your ISP. Have }fun! :-) --- Paul J. Schinder NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Code 693, Greenbelt, MD 20771 schinder@pjstoaster.pg.md.us ***** Want to unsubscribe from this list? ***** Send mail with body "unsubscribe" to mac-perl-request@iis.ee.ethz.ch