Just out of interest, why use Net::FTP? I've always found that something along these lines works a treat. All you need is a text file read from the command line stating which files you require (although you can change this obviously if you arent keen) 
#!/usr/bin/perl

list = $ARGV[0];
$ftp = "/usr/bin/ftp";
$ftptmp="filename.txt";
$ftphost = "<ftp host>";
$ftpdir = "<ftp directory>";

open(LIST, "$list") || die "ERROR: Unable to open $list FILE: $!\n";

while(<LIST>)
{
    @fields = split;

    $file = $fields[0];
       
    # get file from ftp site
    
    print "Retrieving file from FTP site ...\n";
    
    open(FTP, "|$ftp -n $ftphost > $ftptmp");
    print FTP "user anonymous ";
    print FTP "password <email address>\n";
    print FTP "cd $ftpdir\n";
    print FTP "get $file\n";
    print FTP "bye";
        
}

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Not sure if this is quite what you are after, but it might be useful generally speaking.
p.s. Could you please do something about the font .. I think you have everything wrapped around code tags at the moment making your post rather difficult to read. lol

In reply to Re: Net::FTP is NEVER successful by Angharad
in thread Net::FTP is NEVER successful by dbae

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