Hi PerlMonks, I have two text files on the "remote" sever, one is 29864 bytes (about 30 K) and the other is 35498 bytes (about 35 K). And the following code 
use strict;
use Net::SSH::Perl;

my $ssh = Net::SSH::Perl->new('localhost',debug => 1, protocol => '2,1
+');
$ssh->login('username','password');
my ($stdout, $stderr, $exit) = $ssh->cmd('cat /tmp/a 1>&2');
print $stdout . "\n";
print $stderr . "\n";
print $exit . "\n";

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Although everything works when the remote program outputs to stdout, when it outputs to stderr, and the output is large, my script hangs. /tmp/a is the smaller file and the script runs to completion. However /tmp/b is the larger file and causes the above to hang. Any information would be helpful. Thank you kind monks.

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