Ok - never mind. :-/ It turns out (after further investigation) that our system administrator (after telling me I could set the privileges to the FTP directory she'd set up for me to anything I wanted) decided to change the directory so the privileges were only for read - not write and I can no longer change them. Argh. :-( ***** Want to unsubscribe from this list? ***** Send mail with body "unsubscribe" to mac-perl-request@iis.ee.ethz.ch