No. The difference is that Ben is working on a non-VM system and Lawrence is working on a VM system. The file systems are very different. Pete Weiss's advice from a previous message should be followed in Lawrence's case. Nathan :) On Thu, 21 Dec 1995 08:09:47 -0600 Ben Parker said: >On Wed, 20 Dec 1995, Lawrence J. Clark wrote: > >> Anybody know what went wrong? >> Command: PUT AMLIT2-L WELCOME LISTSERV > >The correct command is PUT AMLIT2-L WELCOME PW=your_password_here > >On disk the actual filename will be AMLIT2-L.WELCOME since the "." >cannot be sent in the command string, the filename.filetype must be sent >as 2 adjacent words. You added the word LISTSERV which was unnecesary >and incorrect because that is where the LISTSERV(tm) program expects to >see the PW=your_password in the PUT command stream. > > _____________________________________________________________________________ > Ben Parker .............. (Oak Park IL) ........... [log in to unmask]