Folks- On a new laptop, with XP Pro, I installed activeperl build 819, then installed Net::SSH::Perl, Net::SSH::W32Perl, and associated packages. Trying to run the following will hang. use Net::SSH::W32Perl; my $ssh = Net::SSH::Perl->new($host); $ssh->login($user, $pass); my($stdout, $stderr, $exit) = $ssh->cmd($cmd); Initial debugging indicates the command at the target machine runs fine, but the stdout never comes back, and Net::SSH::Perl loops forever in the client_loop routine. When I replace activeperl build 819 with build 813 everything works fine. any thoughts? Thanks -Craig