1. Description

ZIPnet is a perl script running on a LinuX box and waiting for incomming TCP/IP connections. The TCP/IP connection is established by a LinuX/win/telnet client running on the client machines. The clients are not restricted to LinuX and win - you could simply use telnet or hack your own one. These clients give order to the perl script to mount, umount, eject or format the ZIP-disk.
When a client connects and it is the first one, then it has full access to the drive. The next clients will only see the status. If the first clients disconnects the second client becomes the first one and so on. Therefore it is not a good idea to disconnect before you have removed your disk.
As you see, the script could be used with other drives like CD-ROMs, even if formating makes no sense.