perldoc Net::FTP will give you more information.

If the Net::FTP module handles the ASCII transfer mode, it should be able to request it of the server for those files which need it. Then one side strips out carriage returns in transit. That's what it's for. BINARY mode keeps both sides' bytes intact, which sounds like what's happening for you.

Cygwin has a setting for whether or not the programs will work with \x0D\x0A or \x0A as the default value for \n. I don't know whether you've looked into that, or if it's something you can change in your circumstances.

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Thanks for your time. But if you could throw some light on how the stripping is done in transit. I am using ftp->ascii(). And i did not find anything more than this in the docs that would say, ok strip these text files for the line endings except the Hash. Which did not help much. Cheers K

Can you use cygwin's dos2unix app?

If you have a number of these files, you can iterate over them using:

#!/usr/bin/perl
$dirname = ".";

opendir(DIR, $dirname) or die "can't opendir $dirname: $!";
while (defined($file = readdir(DIR))) {
        next if $file =~ /^\.\.?$/;
        system("dos2unix $file");
}
closedir(DIR);
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This'll try to convert directories, too, but you did say you were in a hurry.

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I basically robbed The Perl Cookbook for more than 90% of this code. :)

You need to set ASCII mode for the FTP. Read the docs. After the fact this is the standard perl one liner that will do all the files in the current dir (it will break binary files BTW unless you modify it. Ususally this is not an issue as there are no binary files in the same dir as your text files. Backups are written to *.bak for each file

perl -pi.bak -e 's/\r//g' ./*
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cheers

tachyon

s&&rsenoyhcatreve&&&s&n.+t&"$'$`$\"$\&"&ee&&y&srve&&d&&print

I hope you don't need to resort to this, but in case you do, I hope it helps.

Thanks for your time. I know of the utils that would convert the line endings. Such as dos2unix and we have used it for other projects, But this one. Any other insights would be appreciated. K