On Mon, 16 Jun 2003, Ole Holm Nielsen wrote: > but it hangs when trying to use "lynx -dump" to get a directory > listing of ftp://ftp.nai.com/pub/antivirus/datfiles/4.x Are you behind a packet-filtering firewall? You might need to use passive-mode FTP. Not sure how to do it with lynx, but GNU wget can handle it. -- David.