I am RCPing 6 large directories from one machine to another
and only in the middle (maybe 1/2 hour into it) of the LAST
directory do I get this error.

I have seen the similar posts on 10/02/2000 but I think this is
is different since the first several RCPs work and only the last
one fails.  Also, I placed an "exit" as the first line in the
.cshrc and .login files.

It appears to get part way thru copying a subdirectory which
was originally filled by afpd (netatalk) from a mac, and then
fails.  The file names contain lots of spaces and perhaps
strange characters.

On the receiving end, dmesg shows lots of "nfsd send error 55"
lines.  I'm not sure this is related.