hi well i had logged on a remote system as a XYZ user(telnet) by mistake i had logged up as FTP on the same system i had used get command ot copy a file try.c from that system to my system which was again the remote system. the file trasffered successfully but size was 0 byte can i retrieve it? i dont get why the size is 0? ankit ________________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Messenger - Communicate instantly..."Ping" your friends today! Download Messenger Now http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com/download/index.html - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html