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DESCRIPTION
The Net::Hotline modules implement a Hotline interface in Perl. Currently,
this includes only Net::Hotline::Client. Hotline is an internet
client/server system that's sort of a cross between IRC and a traditional
BBS. See http://www.hotlinesw.com/ for more information.
PREREQUISITES
Net::Hotline has been tested with perl version 5.6.1, MacPerl 5.2.0r4,
and Hotline server versions 1.2.1 and 1.2.3. It should work fine on any
version of Perl 5 and any 1.2.x version of Hotline, however.
INSTALLATION
The standard incantations should work:
perl Makefile.PL
make
make install
Here are a few common variations on that theme:
* If you don't want to (or can't) install in the system-wide directories,
you can use PREFIX to install elsewhere. Example:
perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=~/perl
make
make install
You'll probably have to create some dummy directories before this works.
Just look at the error messages and create the directories it says it
can't find.
* If you're installing on a classic Mac OS system, simply duplicate the
folder hierarchy inside the distribution's "lib" folder in your MacPerl
folder. For example, "lib/Net/Hotline/Protocol/Packet.pm" would be
copied to "<Your MacPerl Folder>/lib/Net/Hotline/Protocol/Packet.pm"
(You'll have to create any nonexistent folders in the path)
I'm not sure how to AutoSplit in MacPerl, so what I've been doing is
commenting out three lines in "Client.pm" to disable AutoLoading. The
lines are:
31: use AutoLoader 'AUTOLOAD';
1488: __END__
Just add a "#" character to the beginning of those lines.
EXAMPLES
There are two example scripts in the "Examples" directory.
1. "hlftp.pl" is a simple command line FTP-like Hotline client included
to demonstrate Net::Hotline::Client's "blocking task mode" (read the
documentation for an explanation). Its operation should be familiar
to anyone who's used ncftp or the regular Unix ftp client.
2. "hibot.pl" is a very simple Hotline "bot" included to demonstrate
Net::Hotline::Client's "event loop mode" (again, RTFM). It works a
lot like hlftp.pl in terms of connecting to servers. Log the bot
onto your local Hotline server an message it with the text "help"
for more information.
BUG REPORTING
Send bug reports to John C. Siracusa (siracusa@mindspring.com)
COPYRIGHT
Copyright(c) 1998-2002 by John C. Siracusa. All rights reserved. This
program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the same terms as Perl itself.
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