Corrected again. I wonder why and how it reverted back to /J?

Disabling Wayland means another windowing system would be required. I do not want to install another.

No need, the IBM ftp server converts EBCDIC to ASCII, so the communication is done in ASCII.

I realized your suggestion would be the right way to go if the quote subcommand was implemented in Net::FTP, so I wrote it and created a pull request.

Simple, easy to understand, good enough for government work

The remote server is a mainframe, using EBCDIC, not ASCII or UTF-8, and there are several complexities that I did not incorporate into the above code. When mainframes are involved, even the simplest task becomes a considerable effort. Best to leave the infrastructure in place and work with it.