I really think that it has something to do with the buffers because the system calls within the functions of FTP and Telnet work when executed in the cmd prompt. Do you think that when extract spawns the FTP/TELNET calls, a wait() call should be used?

To further clarify: if a 'cls' is called any time after the FTP/TELNET calls, the mainmenu does not freeze. After extract finishes, the following is called t(he freeze occurs at the $ans = <STDIN>;): 
sub mmenu{
print "\nDo you wish to go back to the MAIN menu? [y/n] y\b";
    $ans = <STDIN>;
    chomp($ans);
    if (($ans eq "y") || ($ans eq ""))
       { goto mainmenu; }
    else  
       { exit 0; }
}

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