On Thu, 2 Jun 2011, James B. Byrne wrote: > tell me how I can capture and log the initial response to the ftp > connection? man expect It is usually straightforward to capture a transcript of a session, and then abstract away the needed prompts and responses (The ORA 'Exploring Expect' by Don Libes should be read and studied by every sysadmin wanting to be more than a bike-shed painter -- I use such problems to train PFY on their road to BOFH'hood) As I recall FTP has some parts in its protocol, as does telnet (another ancient protocol) that are sent to varying file handles, and with varying 'echo' to console stty options, in setting up connection options -- Russ herrold