On Nov 7, 2005, at 13:33, Dhanashri Bhate wrote:
The difference is in the sizes of these files, the File downloaded
via the
script is a little bigger (about 20 KB) than the File downloaded
manually
with a browser (the file sizes are in MBs)
That comment was the key.
I bet a beer this is a newline issue.
THANKS A MILLION XAVIER!!!!! :) :)
Yes that observation was the most important thing that actually I
should
have mentioned in my first email...
Glad it got fixed :-).
I tried the alternative you suggested, and it worked :) Thanks again!
But a zip file would need to be written in binary mode on Windows.
Isn't it true for *nixes as well? (or the initial script will work
as is on
FreeBSD?)
The program I'm writing is for test automation, and can be executed
from
either Windows on *nix systems, so I guess binary copy as you told
would be
the best option.
Any portable script has to call binmode($fh) to hadle binary files.
Even if the script is only meant to run on a Linux box I find a
dubious practice not to set binmode on. That breaks potability in a
subtle way that may be a maintenance nightmare someday.
binmode() does always the right thing _no matter the platform_, and
in particular that code will work as is on Unix systems.
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