>>4. As someone remarked, if ftp fails the messages blast by so fast
>>   that you can not tell what happened.

>This has been a *long-standing* problem.  I'm not sure how to bash on
>curses to get around it.  Perhaps Phil can look at it this weekend.

The solution I used for this problem in a simple shell based menu
system was if an executed process fails, just put up a
"press any key to continue..." message so they can read the errors.
If everything worked, just return imediately to the menu.

--sjg