Bill Fink wrote: > Simple (Probably VERY Trivial To Ya'll ) > > I merely want to send TWO lines to a remote host (via the Telnet program, OR > if there is an easier way), with the information that's returned to be > collected to a file. > > (I'm creating reports from a web-server - and would like to send TWO LINES > to THAT server, and 'read' the results.)
What you need here is LWP::Simple module. Just say: use LWP::Simple; $page = get 'http://dev.perl.org/'; and you have the HTML page in $page variable. Thet works even with proxies, really great module. See: http://www.linpro.no/lwp/ http://www.perldoc.com/perl5.6/lib/LWP.html http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=libwww-perl - RaFaL Pocztarski, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]