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From: rob@ut-emx.UUCP (Edward Robinson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: ftp under Ultrix 3.0
Keywords: ftp, macros, .netrc
Message-ID: <14116@ut-emx.UUCP>
Date: 15 Jun 89 13:51:57 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
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I am running Ultrix 3.0 on a VAXStation 2000 and am having trouble
with the ftp command.  On other machines I set up an "init" macro in 
my .netrc file in order to do the setup automatically.  Specifically, 
I have the following in the .netrc file:

machine xxxxx
login yyyyy
password zzzzz
macdef init              )
binary                   )  <---  This stuff does not work.
prompt                   )

machine wwwww
 and so on.


The ftp command under Ultrix 3.0 does not seem to recognize the macdef
in my .netrc file.  Macdef does work if I use it at the ftp prompt.  
Can anyone help me with this?

-- 
Edward Robinson
Dept. of Astronomy, Univ. of Texas @ Austin
email: rob@emx.utexas.edu