I'm using Archive::zip in my program to zip up a few text files on my linux box and ftp them over to an NT machine.
For some reason, there is some 'formatting' in these text files by the time they reach the NT box. They still work correctly, but they just look strange when viewing with notepad or something. HOWEVER, they look just fine when viewing with 'Wordpad - or Word'.
Question: how can I get rid of this formatting that was not there in the first place? Has anyone else run into something like this?

I am ftp'ing in binary format (will not work in ascii since it is a zip file). Here is an example of the code I am using:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use Net::FTP;
use Archive::Zip qw( :ERROR_CODES :CONSTANTS );

$zip = Archive::Zip->new();

      $member = $zip->addFile('some_file.txt');
      $member = $zip->addFile('some_file2.txt');
      $member = $zip->addFile('some_file3.txt');

die 'write error' if $zip->writeToFileNamed('some_zip_file.zip') != AZ
+_OK;

$ftp = Net::FTP->new("some_ip");
$ftp->login('user', 'pass');
$ftp->type("I"); # zip file is a binary file.
$ftp->put('some_zip_file.zip');
$ftp->quit();

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Thanks for any help or pointers.

In reply to unwanted text formatting with Archive::zip by Anonymous Monk

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