copying files from Unix to Win system

[mikeraz at patch.com]

Hi All,

I'm automating a process that receives text files via ftp and then mounts
a SAMBA share to copy the files to a Windows based file server.

The current method is open file, set $/ to "", slurp file, write file and close:

   open INFILE, "<$_" or die "cannot open local $_";
   open OUTFILE, ">$tmnt/$dest/$_" or die "cannot open destination $_";
   $fs = $/;
   undef $/;
   $cont = <INFILE>;
   print OUTFILE $cont;
   $/ = $fs;
   close INFILE;
   close OUTFILE;


Problem with this approach is that the line endings are not converted.  Same
problem for 


   while(<INFILE>) {
        print OUTFILE;
   }

While I'm scratching my head over why this isn't being done automagically,
I'm considering:

   @lines_in_file = <INFILE>;
   foreach (@lines_in_file) {
	chomp;
   }

   $/ = "\015\012";  # from newlines in perlport
   foreach (@lines_in_file) {
   	print OUTFILE "$_$/";
   }


But that feels wrong as in there has to be a better way wrong.

Now if someone is going to tell me that Perl has a built in file copy funcation . . . . 

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