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=item * Bundle::libnet

=item * Term::ReadLine

=item * Term::ReadKey

=item * And, of course...

=item * CPAN.pm!

=back

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Bundle::CPAN

MD5

=over

=item * Simple, really

=back

use Digest::MD5 qw(md5_hex);

print md5_hex($data);

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Bundle::CPAN

Compress::Zlib

=over

=item * Allows both in-memory compression and file access

=back

=over

=item * File access is much more useful

=back

use Compress::Zlib;

$fh = gzopen($filename, $mode);

$bytesread = $fh-E<gt>gzreadline($line);

$byteswritten = $fh-E<gt>gzwrite($buffer);

=over

=item * (PerlIO in 5.8.0 should make this transparent anyway)

=back

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Bundle::CPAN

Archive::Tar

=over

=item * Portable .tar(.gz) file creation and reading

=back

use Archive::Tar;

Archive::Tar-E<gt>create_archive ("my.tar.gz", 9,

"/this/file", "/that/file");

$tar = Archive::Tar-E<gt>new();

$tar-E<gt>add_files("file/foo.c", "file/bar.c");

$tar-E<gt>write("files.tar");

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Bundle::CPAN

Bundle::libnet

=over

=item * Now in core!

=back

Net::FTP RFC959 File Transfer Protocol

Net::SMTP RFC821 Simple Mail Transfer Protocol

Net::Time RFC867 Daytime Protocol

Net::Time RFC868 Time Protocol

Net::NNTP RFC977 Network News Transfer Protocol

Net::POP3 RFC1939 Post Office Protocol 3

Net::SNPP RFC1861 Simple Network Pager Protocol

=over

=item * Should be regarded as building blocks.