JB> I just downloaded the MDC listings but they seem to be uncompressed
 JB> text files with a .gz extensions so when I transferred them, the
 JB> line feeds were not converted to carriage return/line feed (which I
 JB> believe is something HTTP transfers will do) 

 ml> nope... FTP does this if binary transfers are not used... but the
 ml> FTP must also be able to know what is used on both ends of the
 ml> connection... 

forgot to add that http is dumb and doesn't have a clue, either... it can't
even keep the original file time and date stamps... FTP can and does in
most cases ;)

)\/(ark