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From: Graham Barr <[email protected]>
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Subject: ANNOUNCE: libnet-1.0602
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I have just uploaded to PAUSE a new release of the libnet distribution,
it should appear on CPAN mirror sites soon

If you do not want to wait for CPAN to mirror it then it is also
avaliable from

    http://www.connect.net/gbarr/cpan/libnet-1.0602.tar.gz

This patch release contains a lot of fixes from 1.06

Please also read the RADME.config file in the distribution.

libnet is a collection of perl modules which encapsulate the usage
of various protocols used in the internet community. These include

 Net::FTP     (RFC959)
 Net::SMTP    (RFC821)
 Net::Netrc
 Net::Cmd
 Net::Domain
 Net::Telnet  (RFC854)
 Net::Time    (RFC867 & RFC868)
 Net::NNTP    (RFC977)
 Net::POP3    (RFC1939)
 Net::SNPP    (RFC1861)
 Net::PH
 Net::Config

To install libnet you ***MUST*** have the following modules installed

 IO::Socket

This release contains the following changes to the previous release

*** Patch 1.0602

Mon Nov 17 1997 <[email protected]> (Graham Barr)

       Makefile.PL
       - change to code for creating Net::Config

       Net::FTP::A
       - Change to write() to ensure whole packet is sent
       - Documentation correction to dir() and ls()

       Net::FTP::dataconn
       - Stop abort be called when a write socket is being closed.

       Net::NNTP
       - Changes to postok logic

       Net::PH
       - fields() now also returns a reference to an ordered array of tag
names
         if called in an array context.

       Net::Cmd
       - Catch added for SIGPIPE while in ->command()

*** Patch 1.0601

Tue Nov  4 1997 <[email protected]> (Graham Barr)

       Configure
       - Fix croak problem


       Net::FTP, Net::NNTP, Net::PH, Net::POP3, Net::SMTP, Net::SNPP
       - Fix error cause by calling close method when "unexpected EOF:
         has been encountered.

       t/require.t
       - Remove Net::Telnet test




It should be avaliable on mirror sites soon from

       http://www.perl.com/CPAN/authors/Graham_Barr/

Comments are always very welcome.

Copyright 1996 Graham Barr. All rights reserved.

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the same terms as Perl itself.

Share and Enjoy!
Graham <[email protected]>

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