I've been banging my head against this very, very simple code for a few days and against a few different servers. What on earth am I doing wrong here? 
my $host = 'ftp.ftphost.com';
my $u = 'username';
my $p = 'password';

my $ftp;

unless ($ftp = Net::FTP->new($host)) {
    die "No FTP for you!\n\n";
}

$ftp->login($u, $p);
$ftp->binary;
print $ftp->dir("\\");

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This is on a WinME machine, perl 5.6.1 with Net::FTP installed using the CPAN module. I'm really curious, because this is (roughly) the example given in the Net::FTP tutorial elsewhere (minus host-specific info and minus a few method calls on the $ftp object).

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In reply to Net::FTP Woes by chaoticset

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