How to use host commands in an ftp session

[A. Clay Stephenson]

The ownership of the .netrc file must be whatever user is executing the FTP client; however, the logname on the remote machine can be anything. FTP looks in the .netrc file on the client for a matching machine and login name (for the remote machine) and uses the password in the .netrc file just as though you typed all of that in.

[Suman_7]

I am trying to use the ftpget.pl and I get this error message. I am new to perl.

Use of reserved word "our" is deprecated at ./myftpget.pl line 87.
Global symbol "$opt_h" requires explicit package name at ./myftpget.pl line 87.
Global symbol "$opt_l" requires explicit package name at ./myftpget.pl line 87.
Global symbol "$opt_a" requires explicit package name at ./myftpget.pl line 87.
Global symbol "$opt_p" requires explicit package name at ./myftpget.pl line 87.
Global symbol "$opt_B" requires explicit package name at ./myftpget.pl line 87.
Global symbol "$opt_A" requires explicit package name at ./myftpget.pl line 87.
Global symbol "$opt_d" requires explicit package name at ./myftpget.pl line 87.
Global symbol "$opt_s" requires explicit package name at ./myftpget.pl line 87.
Global symbol "$opt_t" requires explicit package name at ./myftpget.pl line 87.
Global symbol "$opt_v" requires explicit package name at ./myftpget.pl line 88.
Global symbol "$opt_u" requires explicit package name at ./myftpget.pl line 88.
Global symbol "$opt_z" requires explicit package name at ./myftpget.pl line 88.
Execution of ./myftpget.pl aborted due to compilation errors.
Failed; status = 255; try again later

Please advice

Thanks
Suman

[A. Clay Stephenson]

You are running a very old version of Perl. This is probably Perl 4 in /usr/contrib. Either install Perl from your application CD's or download from www.perl.org/CPAN or
http://hpux.connect.org.uk/hppd/hpux/Languages/perl-5.8.3/