From:	Terrence Brannon	Date:	Tue May 18 04:12:13 2004
Subject:	Re: FTP->Binary

PerlDiscuss - Perl Newsgroups and mailing lists wrote:

>I am trying to get my program to switch to Binary mode. I know the command
>is ftp->binary();, however, it does not work.
>
where in the Net::FTP docs does it say that? I don't think you will find it.

> By chance, i got the program
>to work only when i have the following lines of code inserted:
>$bin=$ftp->binary or die "Can not change the Type to Binary\n";
>$bin=$ftp->binary;
>
>If I take out any of those lines it transfers in Ascii mode. Why?
>  
>
I think the server can default to ascii or binary. But then it can be 
changed.

>Thanks
>Isaac
>
>
>  
>
You can set the default server transfer type when you create $ftp 
also... perldoc Net::FTP for more details:

$net = Net::FTP->new($host, { Type => 'I' } ); #for example, untested




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