This is kind of kludgey, but here's a way to output arbitrary text for each hash mark Net::FTP prints. 
#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use Net::FTP;

my $BYTES_PER_HASH = 1024;

# Fork a child process for Net::FTP
# and capture its output one char at
# a time
if (open(FTP, "-|"))
{
        # parent
        my $count = 1;
        while (getc(FTP))
        {
                print $BYTES_PER_HASH * $count, " bytes received\n";
                $count++;
        }
        print "Done\n";
}
else
{
        # child
        my $ftp = Net::FTP->new("ftp.microsoft.com", Debug => 0);
        $ftp->login("anonymous","-anonymous\@");
        $ftp->cwd("MISC");
        $ftp->hash(\*STDOUT, $BYTES_PER_HASH);
        $ftp->get("NBFCP.TXT");
        $ftp->quit;
}

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If you know the size of the file (or use Net::FTP to get it before starting the download), you could use this to output a progress meter. If you don't want to output plain text, you could output javascript that updates a graphic meter instead.

-Matt

In reply to Re: Re: FTP Transfer Status by DrManhattan
in thread FTP Transfer Status by allyc

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