boat73:

You might then try the rhelp and or rstatus commands to get a list of the commands that your FTP server supports and look for clues. On our mainframe, for example:

ftp> rhelp
214-The server-FTP commands are:
214-ABOR,*ACCT,*ALLO, APPE, CDUP,  CWD, DELE, FEAT, HELP, LANG, LIST, 
+MDTM, MKD
214-MODE, NLST, NOOP, OPTS, PASS, PASV, PORT,  PWD, QUIT, REIN, REST, 
+RETR, RMD
214-RNFR, RNTO, SITE, SIZE, *SMNT, SYST, STAT, STOR, STOU, STRU, TYPE,
+ USER
214-ADAT, AUTH, CCC, PBSZ, PROT, EPSV, EPRT
214-The commands preceded by '*' are not implemented
214-The data representation type may be ASCII, EBCDIC or IMAGE, or may
+ be
214-one of the following Double Byte Character Sets:
   *** SNIP ***
214-For information about a particular command, type
214 HELP SERVER command or QUOTE HELP command

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Looking at the list of commands available, I dig through a few until I find: 
ftp> rhelp type
214-TYPE {representation-type} {format}: the default type is ASCII.
214-The implemented data types are ASCII(TYPE A <N>), EBCDIC (TYPE E <
+N>),
214-IMAGE (TYPE I), DBCS (TYPE B <options>), and UNICODE (TYPE U 2 <B 
+| L>).
214 The local byte size is 8.

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(The output of rstatus is too long and boring to bother including here, but may have usefulclues for you as well.)

Anyway, if your server implements some particular command, then you can use the quote method of Net::FTP to send a particular command string to the server to get what you want.

I hope this is of some use to you...

roboticus

In reply to Re^3: Net::FTP seems to be corrupting my file by roboticus
in thread Net::FTP seems to be corrupting my file by boat73

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