Re: [[email protected]: Re: [MacPerl-Porters] default type/creator]

On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 04:49:34PM +0200, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
> As to Bart's comments, I think a Net::FTP::Mac wouldn't be a bad idea.  I
> don't think it would be great to automatically switch to it, necessarily,
> at least not without an easy way for the user to opt out of it, because I
> might decide that everything should be transferred as binary, and I don't
> want to have to call $ftp->binary before every file etc.  So my vote would
> be for a Net::FTP::Mac which has to be called explicitly, or a way to pass
> an argument to the Net::FTP->new constructor to specify NOT using
> Net::FTP::Mac (or any platform-specific extensions).  You get the idea.
> 
> Certainly, it is something to take up with Graham, if he has the time to
> discuss it, since he has probably talked to others about it for Windows ...

I am coming in late on this, thanks to Jarkko for forwarding this to me.

You do not have to do $ftp->binary before every file transfer, once is
enough and every file after it will be in binary. Likewise
for $ftp->ascii.

But Currently Net::FTP does not make any guesses about how to transfer
files, it does what it is told. And I would prefer to keep it that way.

Graham.