> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Sugalski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, February 18, 2000 2:47 PM
> To: Joe Kazimierczyk
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Net::FTP and %RMS-E-FLK
>
>
> 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.
FWIW, in UCX FTP you can do this with a "disable vms" command.
> 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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