Hello, ... i just installed a potato sysytem using the 2000-01-03 boot-floppies, and noticed that libncurses5 was not installed after the install (i didn't go into dselect or other such fancy stuff, using apt-get directly). In particular ftp wants it to work, this could be a nasty problem. apt-get install libncurses5 solved this, after changing the apt source lines to potato instead of stable. Friendly, Sven LUTHER