I hope you don't mind that I re-directed this back to the list. Doh, W2K! Darn, I even read that in your post. It *would* work, if W2K's ftp command had a switch that allowed it to use passive mode. A quick search of knowledge base turns up: http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q271/0/78.ASP?LN=EN-US&SD=g... The gist of the article is: The FTP clients that ship with Windows do not support passive mode. Therefore, they always need to negotiate a data port when issuing a command that returns data. Never fear, however. It appears that you aren't the only poor soul that has been in this situation. In fact, a quick google search turned up some instructions on the GNU website that shows you how to get around the unfortunate problems with Window's screwed up ftp client. http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/windows/faq8.html#ange-ftp Basically, you need to download a different ftp client (there's a link in on this page) and tell Emacs to use it. Good luck, Jason "Chris Ryland" <cpr@emsoftware.com> writes:
Does that work for W2K as well as Linux? Doesn't seem to. -- Cheers! Chris Ryland Em Software, Inc. www.emsoftware.com