Your assumptions are correct. I try to make an ftp client with NET::FTP. It's not that I have no prompt, The execution stucks on $ftp->get(). I just want to do other staff. I don't want to waste your time, I just want to know if I did something wrong or if it's just the case with get(). I thought that forking would allow me to read from STDIN. Thanks for your time so far.

I think that the first reply to your post was on target. I have looked at the Net::FTP doc's and this appears to be "spot on". I suspect that your problem is at a much higher level than just getting the file. First, you have to authenticate and get logged-on. Follow the steps below.

use Net::FTP;

$ftp = Net::FTP->new("some.host.name", Debug => 1)
  or die "Cannot connect to some.host.name: $@";
   
$ftp->login("your_name",'password')
  or die "Cannot login ", $ftp->message;

$ftp->cwd("remote_dir") #cwd at remote site may not
                        #be necessary depending upon your logon.
  or die "Cannot change working directory ", $ftp->message;

$ftp->get("somefilename")
  or die "get failed ", $ftp->message;
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Wish you well...

Thank you so much for everything Marshall.I did all these. I will try to solve this later. If I find something I'll let you know. Have a wonderfull year

Hi, I've been busy with things other than software for the past couple of days.

I don't know what OS you have, but fork() on Windows is a mess! This doesn't work like on *NIX and is not transportable code.

I would suggest getting this working from the command line first. "prompt> ftp -h" will display some not so helpful "help". Other ways: most browsers(IE,Firefox, etc) allow FTP://..someurl.. Also, I use WinSCP (a Windows program) for a lot of transfers to secure sites. This is freeware.

Maybe you don't even need a Perl program at all?