Benyang Tang wrote: > > treeftp -- a smart ftp client for Unix. You forgot a comma between 'a' and 'b' in the source of treeftp: hostList = { 'a': ('host_a.edu', 'myUserID_a', 'cat passFile_a', '') 'b': ('host_b.edu', 'myUserID_b', 'echo', '-a -t') } Carsten.