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in reply to Beginners guide to Net::FTP

Nice guide, ++.

But don't forget binary!

The version you wrote will work fine if you're running from a Unix client box to a Unix server.

But if the client side is a Win32, Mac, or VMS box (and maybe if the server side is) you want to make sure you call

$f->binary();
before you do any other operations. From the perldoc
The protocol also defines several standard translations which the file can undergo during transfer. These are ASCII, EBCDIC, binary, and byte. ASCII is the default type, and indicates that the sender of files will trans- late the ends of lines to a standard representation which the receiver will then translate back into their local representation.

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Mike