I have a question that has probably been plowed under long ago, but I have much farther to go than the wise monks... To wit:
I have inherited some pretty basic scripts that performed FTP successfully under perl5.003. Upon getting the local sys admins to upgrade to 5.6.1 and update Net::FTP, the same scripts won't connect and inform me (in $@) that "Net::FTP: Timeout" is as far as I'm going to go. Syntax checks, -w, strict all apply. Applying various options to the constructor change nothing. The system is a fairly dusty DG/UX. All suggestions (that don't require self-flagellation) will be humbly considered.