Efs can't figure out what kind of system ftp.research.att.com is. I've tried setting it to dumb-unix with efs-add-host, which usually fixes these problems. It worked for /dist, not efs can't find /dist/ml. Using type plan9 fixed the problem. The reply from QUOTE SYS is: UNIX L8. -- Jeff Sparkes jsparkes@bnr.ca Bell-Northern Research, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada