unlink ftp transparency

Is there currently a way to delete over ftp, without writing the code to communicate with the ftp server? If not, would anyone mind if I did such a thing to unlink?? There are of course three easy ways to do this, that I can think of, but none seem appropriate: 1. To call fopen wrapper and give it a file transfer mode of "d" or something. Of course this seems to be a hack. 2. To copy all of the ftp code from the fopen wrapper to unlink. But this creates duplicate source. 3. To create another function which both the fopen_wrapper and unlink use to do the communication with the ftp server up to the point where the actual RETR, STOR, or DELE is called. I am real anxious just to give it a hack and make it work. =) But I thought I would give you guys a chance to chime in, but I don't know if I understand the internals of the interpreter resources enough to make the function that both fopen_wrapper and unlink use. And then I am REALLY hoping that someone is going to write me back and say, "you stupid person, there is already a way to do that." =O Timothy