>[EMAIL PROTECTED]: >I am trying to put a jpeg on a server and having file corruption >problems....... >Another problem is that the file's comment field data is missing. >Fetch and Net::FTP.
firstly make sure you are uploading the file as 'binary' - FTP progs like Fetch switch data formats automatically , Net::FTP has to be told. As to the file comments - Mac files are alone in the world of computing - they are divided in two parts called 'forks', one is called the data fork the other is called the resource fork. The resource fork is where the file info and icon are stored, the data fork is where the data is stored (the picture, in the case of the jpeg). I'm conjecturing here but most probably as the file is passed through FTP it's resource fork may not be getting passed with it, or only basic stuff like the creator code, file type and icon. You can however use Mac Perl to copy comments from a file or set them (more info in the 'MacPerl: Power and Ease book' : http://macperl.com/macperl/ptf_book/r/MP/i2.html) #!perl -w # Script courtesy of the above link: # sets the comments for the MacPerl app to 'Power and Ease' # then copies the comments to a second file use Mac::MoreFiles; my($file1, $file2); $file1 = MacPerl::MakeFSSpec($Application{'McPL'}); $file2 = MacPerl::MakeFSSpec('HD:Files:file.txt'); FSpDTSetComment($file1, 'Power and Ease'); FSpDTCopyComment($file1, $file2); print FSpDTGetComment($file2), "\n"; __END__ So if the comments are important to you, you can get and set them using the commands above, providing of course you do this on a Mac. HTH Robin
