a Perl interface to the web site tinyurl.com. TinyURL simply maintains a 
database of long URLs, each of which has a unique identifier. to the 
web site tinyurl.com. TinyURL simply maintains a database of long 
URLs, each of which has a unique identifier.

perl-WWW-Shorten will require LWP::UserAgent. The build script for this
libwww-perl, can be downloaded from SlackBuilds.org