David Cary Hart wrote: > In another thread, someone mentioned that gftp won't work from the > console. They are correct. Gftp comes with a text port in the source. > Apparently, that has been disabled. I suppose that I could re-package > the RPM with the text port but does anyone know why this was eliminated? Reading the spec file: [snip] # Disable to save space rm -f $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_bindir}/gftp-text install -m 755 %{SOURCE1} $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_bindir}/gftp-text [snip] * Thu Apr 15 2004 Warren Togami <wtogami@xxxxxxxxxx> 2.0.17-2 - disable gftp-text [snip] IIRC there was some discussion on the lists at the time. Check around: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2004-April/msg00594.html If there is a compelling reason to bring it back, I would file an RFE. -- William Hooper