OK, here's what I did... I removed as many variables as possible, and cut out as much code as I could... and I ended up with a pretty small chunk. This is the whole temp3.pl file: 
use Net::SMTP;
my $smtp = Net::SMTP->new('relay.utah-inter.net');

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With ONLY these lines, if I run the script I get: 
Bad command or file name

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...so I guess it's just a Net::SMTP thing, at least in Windows 9x with Perl 5.6. It doesn't come through as a Perl error, it's just the Command.com unrecognized command response, so it must be a bad System() call in Net::SMTP. Anybody know an easy trick to absorb this output, so it's not displayed? Maybe redirect STDOUT temporarily in my script? I hate to switch to another module for the problem, the script is working great... it's just this litle nuisance.

Thanks,

Alan "Hot Pastrami" Bellows

In reply to Re: Re: Small Net::SMTP problem by Hot Pastrami
in thread Small Net::SMTP problem by Hot Pastrami

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