Hello Monks, I am new to perl and I am converting my old shell scripts over as a method of learning. I am having trouble with one script that I use to download packages that I require via ftp. Some files that I try to download end up a few bytes short. My script is: 
#!/usr/bin/perl

my $host = 'ftp.iinet.net.au';
my $arch = 'i386';
my $ver  = '4.3';

use Net::FTP;
my $package = shift;

my $ftp = Net::FTP->new($host, debug => 0) or die "Cant connect: $@";
$ftp->binary();

$ftp->login("anonymous", "-anonymous@") or die "Cant login: ", $ftp->m
+essage;
$ftp->cwd("pub/OpenBSD/$ver/packages/$arch") or die "Cant change dir: 
+", $ftp->message;

my @pkglist = $ftp->ls or die "Cant get dir listing: ", $ftp->message;

for( @pkglist ) {

    my $pkg = $_;

    unless( $pkg =~ $package ) { next; }

    $pkg =~ s/\S\s{7}?//;

    my $test = promptUser( "Download package?", "y" );

    if( $test eq "y" ) {
        $ftp->get( $pkg ) or die "Cannot retrieve matching package: ",
+ $ftp->message;
    }

}

sub promptUser {

    local( $promptString, $defaultValue ) = @_;

    if ( $defaultValue ) {
    print $promptString, "[", $defaultValue, "]: ";
    } else {
    print $promptString, ": ";
    }

    $| = 1;
    $_ = <STDIN>;

    chomp;

    if ("$defaultValue") {
    return $_ ? $_ : $defaultValue;
    } else {
    return $_;
    }
}

exit;

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