ftp under Ultrix 3.0

[Edward Robinson]

I am running Ultrix 3.0 on a VAXStation 2000 and am having trouble
with the ftp command.  On other machines I set up an "init" macro in 
my .netrc file in order to do the setup automatically.  Specifically, 
I have the following in the .netrc file:

machine xxxxx
login yyyyy
password zzzzz
macdef init              )
binary                   )  <---  This stuff does not work.
prompt                   )

machine wwwww
 and so on.


The ftp command under Ultrix 3.0 does not seem to recognize the macdef
in my .netrc file.  Macdef does work if I use it at the ftp prompt.  
Can anyone help me with this?

-- 
Edward Robinson
Dept. of Astronomy, Univ. of Texas @ Austin
email: rob at emx.utexas.edu