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NAME

File::Descriptions - Perl extension for getting file descriptions

SYNOPSIS

  use File::Descriptions;

    $d = new File::Descriptions;
    %descriptions = $d->gethash($directory);

DESCRIPTION

This extension retrieves file descriptions from common mirror distributions like SimtelNet, Debian, etc...

It should auto-recognize the presence of file descriptions for a particular type soon there will be more methods implemented

AUTHOR

Pedro Leite, leite@ua.pt

SEE ALSO

perl(1).