At 02:31 PM 2/18/00 -0500, Joe Kazimierczyk wrote:
>I tried a plain perl 'open' of the file, and it works fine so I'm
>surprised that ftp complains. But I can't take your suggestion because I
>need to run this step in a larger program to 'get' the file. How does
>the ftp code do the file open to get a remote file? (I looked in the
>code, but was a little lost). I guess my other option is to spawn the
>Multinet FTP command instead of using Net::FTP, which should work but is
>not as elegant.
Oh, well duh. If I'd looked closer at the code I'd see my solution wasn't
going to do anything for you.
If you've got multinet on both ends, then the ftp transfer with the command
line tools is definitely working differently than with Net::FTP. The big
difference is that the transfer takes place in VMS mode (STRU VMS) rather
than binary mode, and I'd bet that alters the way the server opens the file
for access. Unfortunately nobody's written code for Net::FTP to do VMS-mode
transfers.
You might want to check with Process to see if there's some magic you can
do to convince the server to open this file anyway when in straight binary
mode. Otherwise you're stuck either spawning off the DCL FTP command or
writing the VMS transfer mode yourself. (And won't *that* be fun? :)
Dan
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