Thanks for the fast reply, I was afraid they'd changed the way ftp works in FC2. I forgot to save the old file but I've got a great book, by Osborne Linux The Complete Reference. I have the 3rd edition, but it's a great book if you need to look up anything, if any one is looking for books. Tim... On Sat, 2004-10-02 at 17:07, Peter Volsted wrote: > hi > > > Timothy Payne wrote: > ----- > > > > That's just what I was looking for but it's not there when I did ls -a. > > I can ftp from the command line and it works fine. So do I just create > > one and name it .netrc and set up the macdef? > > > > yes, that should do it. > > > -- > good luck > > peter >
