After doing all your great suggestions I was able to get my CPAN prompt and install Net::FTP. Thinking that everything was ok, I then ran my script that uses Net::FTP and for some reason my script just sits there, doing nothing..... I have verified that the machine that I'm contacting does allow FTP access and even ran my script on a different machine and it worked fine. However on this machine that I've been working on, it just for some reason just sits there? I can't figure out what is wrong: Below is a snippet of my code: I realize that there is a much better way of doing what my script does of gettting a list of files but for the life of me I can't seem to figure out what is wrong? It just sits there....

#!/usr/bin/perl

use Net::FTP;

@arrayOfFiles = qw/ testfile1.txt testfile2.txt testfile3.txt testfile
+4.txt /;


$ftp = Net::FTP->new("XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX", Debug => 0) or die "Could not 
+connect: $@\n";
$ftp->login("Macaroni","password");
$ftp->cwd("Desktop/DownloadableFiles");
$ftp->ascii();
foreach $getthisfile (@arrayOfFiles) {
print $getthisfile;
$ftp->get("$getthisfile");
}
$ftp->quit;

system("cat @arrayOfFiles > catfiles.txt");
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