Was able to use rftp as outlined in post sent by me earlier today. Sorry about the unnecessary post, I didn't try enough remote hosts before posting.
After finding an FTP site that works, I was able to verify that these two changes to /etc/socks.conf did the trick, on a Compaq laptop dialed to L.A. Free-Net using ppp/pon (quite simple, really): 1. commented "direct 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0" line (added "#"). 2. added "sockd" line with proxy server and interface (ppp0) $ cat /etc/socks.conf'' # socks configuration #direct 127.0.0.1 255.255.255.255 #direct 10.7.10.255 255.255.255.0 #sockd 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 #direct 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 sockd @=206.117.18.6 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 ppp0 $ -Rob Cymbala
