At 01:43 PM 2/18/00 -0500, Joe Kazimierczyk wrote:
>I'm having some trouble with Net::FTP trying to ftp an oracle data
>(which is in backup mode, so it's ok to copy). When I run FTP
>interactively from DCL, I can get the file without problems. But when I
>use Net::FTP, it tells me the file is locked, and exits. I'm not sure
>why there's a difference, since I must be using the same ftp sofware in
>both cases?
Nope. The ftp client's very different. In the Net::FTP case it's entirely
written in perl, while DCL's is probably in C or something.
Something's got the file open, and the default exclusive open that perl
does is barfing on it. Assuming this file's safe to FTP (it's not got any
fancy attributes, right?) then I'd open the file by hand with
VMS::Stdio::vmsopen, read it in chunks (C<$/ = \65536;> is your friend if
you're running 5.005_03) and use the Net::FTP::datasend to slam the chunks
down yourself.
A bit less easy, but not bad. And this way you can put up some sort of
progress display as you go. :)
Dan
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