Try telling File::Copy that you're running on Windows. Also - are you opening the file in Unix or Windows? The ^M is usually seen when opening a Windows text file in Unix after ftp'ing it over in binary (instead of ASCII) mode.

Also, it looks a little goofy that you're telling File::Copy to copy a filehandle you've opened in append-only mode ...

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