Thanks I got the ls -al error to go away but the new error i am getting is:

Can't call method "isPlainFile" on an undefined value at C:/Perl/site/
+lib/Net/FT
P/Recursive.pm line 248.
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I need to write a function get_list that sets these values somehow but i am not sure how to start. This had to have been done before since it is neccessary if you use this on a windows platform.

THanks in advance for your help.