I inherited an FTP program which uses the Net::FTP package. I was running the program on perl version 5.003 with no problems. When my company upgraded to perl v5.6.1, the program fails on login to the host machine. 
$ftp = new Net::FTP($host, Debug => $debug, Timeout => $timeout, Firew
+all => $firewall);

unless ($ftp) {
    #not important
}
else {
  print("Connected to $host...\n");
  if ( $ftp->login( $acct, $pwd ) {
     print("Logged in...\n");
  }
  else {
     if ( ${*$ftp}{'net_cmd_code'} >= 300 ) {
         die("Bad account and/or password.\n");
     }
  } 
}

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i tried to windiff the versions of the Net::FTP between 5.003 and 5.6.1, but the differences are too many. I also tried to search for 'net_cmd_code' in both versions of FTP.pm except this did not help at all. Does someone know the difference between the versions that would cause this problem. btw, i'm running this code on winNT4 SP6. thanks, michael

In reply to Net::FTP problem by Anonymous Monk

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