Lars, the best you can do right now is fetch /ftp＠ftp.xemacs.org:/pub/xemacs/beta/xemacs-21.0/xemacs-21.0-b51.tar.gz and /ftp＠ftp.xemacs.org:/pub/xemacs/beta/xemacs-21.0/packages/\ binary-packages/*.tar.gz for some value of *. Just unpack all the packages in a directory near you and configure XEmacs with '--package-path=/that/directory' Good Luck! Adrian Lars> "Kevin Oberman" <oberman(a)es.net&gt; writes: Lars> I recently tried fetching the latest XEmacs distribution -- and I just Lars> wasn't able to. I wanted the complete distribution so that I could Lars> burn a CD and carry it home, but I found the tree to be a maze of Lars> directories, all the same. Only different. So I had no idea what to Lars> fetch. Lars> Couldn't someone run a cron job that creates a huge tarball of, well, Lars> everything, so that us lazy, but well-disk-endowed people could do Lars> this thing? Lars> You know. ftp. Untar. ./configure. make. Use. Lars> -- Lars> (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) Lars> larsi(a)ifi.uio.no * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen -- Adrian Aichner Applications Engineer Teradyne GmbH Semiconductor Test Group Telephone +49/89/41861(0)-208 Dingolfinger Strasse 2 Fax +49/89/41861-217 D-81673 MUENCHEN E-mail aichner(a)ecf.teradyne.com