I was wondering why someone hadn't yet patched Net::FTP (or something in the family) to accept a tied filehandle. That way you could pass it an IO::Scalar filehandle and have it write to (or read from) a scalar directly. I looked at it before in a previous post and it didn't look hard to do (and princepawn had an alternative which better answered that question anyway, but could also be used here). Hmm, maybe I'll get a round tuit if no one else does...