Welcome to the world of cross platform programming! :-)

I don't know if there is a elegant solution to this, but since chop will always take away the last character I don't like it very much. I'd suggest to do something along this:

# ... read into $line
chomp $line;
$line =~ s/\r$//;
# ... carry on
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That should work for any win-unix-combo (client as well as server; code is untestet, though, and might contain some lurking errors ;) )

Cheers ...

Andreas

Update: Think before submitting ... the line about "any win-unix-combo" is BS, I'm sorry. This will work if your client (executing this script) is unix and the server (where you read from) is win or unix.