On Sun, 18 Jul 2010 19:32:15 +0100, you wrote: It's working now with the HECNET login, I think the copy might take a while though... COPY copies only in record mode. To speed up things you should use a tool like DEC's FTSV which does block mode copies (among other things). http://www.decuslib.com/freeware/freewarev70/ftsv/ HTH, G.