Thanks, I agree with you on the scoping issue. That is the next thing I am working on. I do like the idea of setting constants for certain thing like $version.

I also strongly dislike coding in the login and password for an ftp account, but this program is designed to ftp to one account by default. The user can pass in an alternate ftp server and login / password with the command line options. The one problem I had (and the reason I coded in the login / pasword) is that users who are not allowed access to the ftp server can still use this to place files there. Do you have an idea on a workaround for that circumstance?

I did consider making it a package, but didn't think it was important enough. I assumed there was already something like this on cpan, I didn't check to see if there was, I just assumed.

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