Re: Need help in Net::FTP module

2006-11-23 Thread Kenneth Ă–lwing
You must put the FTP transmission into binary mode (just call the binary method before the get). HTH, ken1 - Original Message - From: neeti somaiya To: activeperl@listserv.ActiveState.com Sent: Friday, November 24, 2006 6:12 AM Subject: Need help in Net::FTP module Hi, I am using th

Need help in Net::FTP module

2006-11-23 Thread neeti somaiya
Hi, I am using the Net::FTP module of Perl to download files from NCBI ftp. These are .gz files. When I download these files by normally doing a ftp login through command-line, I am able to successfully download these files and later gzip -d (i.e. uncompress) them. But when I do it via a perl pro

RE: Showing Untrapped Error Messages in a DOS Window

2006-11-23 Thread Eric Robertson
Nath That worked perfectly - many thanks. Eric. -Original Message- From: Nathan Haigh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 23, 2006 2:05 PM To: Eric Robertson Cc: activeperl@listserv.ActiveState.com Subject: Re: Showing Untrapped Error Messages in a DOS Window You could s

Re: Showing Untrapped Error Messages in a DOS Window

2006-11-23 Thread Nathan Haigh
Quoting Eric Robertson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I have a Perl program that asks for user input, does some calculations and > then outputs the results. I've compiled this program and it opens up a DOS > window for the input and then displays the results. I've arranged it so that > this DOS window rem

Showing Untrapped Error Messages in a DOS Window

2006-11-23 Thread Eric Robertson
I have a Perl program that asks for user input, does some calculations and then outputs the results. I've compiled this program and it opens up a DOS window for the input and then displays the results. I've arranged it so that this DOS window remains open to display these results and any errors tha