From: Dan Aronson <Dan@zarathustra.think.com>
FTP tells me: /user/ftp/pub/lisp-course-survey.txt: No such file
I got bit by this one also. It seems that ftp doesn't like absolute
pathnames. Since you come in in the directory /usr/ftp, just do
a 'cd pub' followed by a 'get lisp-course-survey.txt localfile' and
all will work fine.
Bruce