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As I understand it, you want to run a script on your workstation, that opens the file on the server and reads/writes it...

Your available options are determined by the ways the server allows you to connect. The only method I've seen you mention in the thread is by using Telnet, which is definitely not the way to go... Though you could have your client script login thru telnet and have it start another (server)script that allows the two to communicate...

I recall reading a chapter on RPC (Remote Procedure Call) in O'Reilly's Advanced Perl Programming Book. This method would require you to run a 'homemade' server-script on the server which would allow a client-script to perform any perl command transparantly on the server.

CPAN's RPC::Simple seems to provide something like this.

I think the way to go for you though is asking your sysadmin to allow access using NFS or Samba if you're using a windows workstation...

In reply to Re: How does perl's file I/O work? by Gilimanjaro
in thread How can I access a file on a remote server? by Kspoon

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