Thanks for taking the time to answer my questions. Unfortunately the ftp'ing is all part of a script that our builds department runs to collect all the files it needs for a given build and they don't have the time to go through and search for all the .txt files and then make them unix. I guess we are stuck with the vb tool.
This is the first Perl discussion group I have found and I must say I have been very impressed with the speedy and helpful responses! Thank you muchly.

Kalimeister