my administrator is rather particular about the way i tie to my FTP server from my WWW server for security reasons. hence, i'm trying to write a "canned" FTP program that gets the directory and files from a remote server from my web server to my perl program for manipulation. i get everything working perfectly up to the point of the "LIST". my connection stales and i get nothing at this point. please check the following example and help me over this last "hump" ? 

$FTPdServer = '192.168.0.1';
$System[0] = '\0'x4;
$System[1] = '\0'x16;

socket (FTP, AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, getprotobyname('tcp'));
connect (FTP, pack('S n a4 x8', AF_INET, 21, (gethostbyname($FTPdServe
+r)) [4]));
$System[0] = (unpack('S n a4 x8', getsockname(FTP)))[2];
$System[1] = pack('S n a4 x8', AF_INET, 0, $System[0]);
select (FTP); $| = 1; select (STDOUT);
sysread (FTP, $FormData, 1024);
print STDOUT "$FormData\n";
sysread (FTP, $FormData, 1024);
print STDOUT "$FormData\n";
print FTP "USER webserver\r\n";
sysread (FTP, $FormData, 1024);
print STDOUT "$FormData\n";
print FTP "PASS password\r\n";
sysread (FTP, $FormData, 1024);
print STDOUT "$FormData\n";
print FTP "CWD Weaving\r\n";
sysread (FTP, $FormData, 1024);
print STDOUT "$FormData\n";

socket (IOS, AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, getprotobyname('tcp'));
bind (IOS, pack('S n a4 x8', AF_INET, 0, (gethostbyname($FTPdServer)) 
+[4]));
($System[2], $System[3], @tBuffer) = unpack("S n C C C C x8", getsockn
+ame(IOS));
push(@tBuffer, ($System[3] >> 8) & 0x00ff);
push(@tBuffer, $System[3] & 0x00ff);
$System[4] = join(',', @tBuffer);
listen (IOS, 1);

print FTP "PORT $System[4]\r\n";
sysread (FTP, $FormData, 1024);
print STDOUT "$FormData\n";

print FTP "LIST\r\n";
sysread (FTP, $FormData, 1024);
print STDOUT "$FormData\n";

### at this point the FTP server says;
### "opening for ascii data transfer"
### then hangs infinetly when i try the
### accept (DATA,IOS) and try to read
### from <DATA> port/file

close (IOS);

print FTP "QUIT\r\n";
sysread (FTP, $FormData, 1024);
print STDOUT "$FormData\n";

close (FTP);

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