Either I'm being stupid or XEmacs is. I'm using "21.4 (patch 6) \"Common Lisp (candidate 1)\" XEmacs Lucid" on an `alpha-dec-osf5.0' system. A while ago, I downloaded a sumo tarball, so I have old versions of the packages installed. I want to update my packages, so I choose a download site from Tools -> Packages -> Add download site. Then I go to Tools -> Packages -> List and install. After a second or two, I get this: *ftp anonymous(a)ftp.xemacs.org* seems not a pty. Kill? First problem: this is meaningless to me, and probably meaningless to some other people. Could someone rewrite this error message in English? Anyway, my three options are "Yes", "No", and "Cancel", and I haven't been able to detect any differences in their behaviors. I figure there's something wrong with the ftp connection, so I select another download site. (First I choose the one I started with, to unmark that box, then I choose a new one.) When I try "List and install" again, I immediately get this: Process not open for writing: #<process "*ftp anonymous(a)ftp.sunsite.utk.edu*&quot; pid 480165 state:exit> This is my second problem: once there is one failure with a download site to get the package listing, I can't switch to another site and try again. As far as I can tell, it's not even trying to open the ftp connection; it just gives an error right away and quits. -- J. H. Palmieri Dept of Mathematics, Box 354350 mailto:palmieri＠math.washington.edu University of Washington http://www.math.washington.edu/~palmieri/ Seattle, WA 98195-4350