> Perhaps I misunderstood your question. I am
> simply using the 'ftp' command in HPUX [...]
I think that we understand each other, but
that first suggestion of pure_ftpd assumed
that your problem was with an FTP server on
HP-UX, not the client ("ftp").
It's likely that more people have questions
about configuring an FTP server on HP-UX than
have questions about using its FTP client
program, and you didn't specify which end you
were on, so it was a predictable error. Many
of the questions on this forum are unclear or
incomplete (like yours), and many of the
answers depend on unjustified assumptions
(like his). (And many of my responses
include questions, and in many cases they
never get answered, but that was not a
problem here.)
> [...] I use the .netrc file [...]
I believe that wget also uses .netrc,
although leaving passwords lying around in a
file never seemed like a good idea to me. I
don't know if Kermit does, but Kermit does
offer a pretty versatile scripting
capability, so many things are possible with
it. At least one of these programs should be
useful. There's also cURL, which I don't use
much, but which may also do what you need:
http://curl.haxx.se/
