OK, I press `C-x C-f ~/work/srce/base.shar RET' expecting to get fundamental-mode, since I don't have the package. But instead of that, I get: Opening FTP connection to ftp.xemacs.org... And it stands there, because this machine can't establish a direct FTP connection outside Croatia *at all*. I set debug-on-quit to t, and what do I get: Signaling: (quit) accept-process-output(#<process "*ftp anonymous(a)ftp.xemacs.org*&quot; pid 12499 state:run>) byte-code("..." [efs-process-busy efs-process-nowait process-status proc (run open) accept-process-output] 2) efs-raw-send-cmd(#<process "*ftp anonymous(a)ftp.xemacs.org*&quot; pid 12499 state:run> "open ftp.xemacs.org" nil) efs-login("ftp.xemacs.org" "anonymous" #<process "*ftp anonymous(a)ftp.xemacs.org*&quot; pid 12499 state:run>) efs-get-process("ftp.xemacs.org" "anonymous") efs-host-type("ftp.xemacs.org" "anonymous") efs-expand-file-name("/ftp.xemacs.org:/pub/xemacs/packages/package-index.LATEST" nil) apply(efs-expand-file-name ("/ftp.xemacs.org:/pub/xemacs/packages/package-index.LATEST" nil)) efs-file-handler-function(expand-file-name "/ftp.xemacs.org:/pub/xemacs/packages/package-index.LATEST" nil) expand-file-name("/ftp.xemacs.org:/pub/xemacs/packages/package-index.LATEST") package-get-update-base() package-get-require-base() package-get-package-provider(sh-mode) tar-real-set-auto-mode() set-auto-mode() byte-code("..." [set-auto-mode t] 1) tar-real-normal-mode(t) normal-mode(t) after-find-file(t t) byte-code("..." [set-buffer-major-mode buf erase-buffer nil (byte-code "Ť‡Á\nĂ\"ˆŞ…Ä\nĂ\"ˆÁ‡" [rawfile insert-file-contents-literally filename t insert-file-contents] 3) ((file-error ...)) buffer-file-truename truename number buffer-file-number system-type vax-vms logical string-match ":" file-name-directory filename 0 find-file-not-true-dirname-list buffer-file-name find-file-use-truenames abbreviate-file-name default-directory backup-enable-predicate make-local-variable backup-inhibited t rawfile after-find-file error nowarn] 4) find-file-noselect("~/work/srce/base.shar") find-file("~/work/srce/base.shar" nil) call-interactively(find-file) Maybe in the future I'll learn to like the automatic package update "feature", but until then, I would like to respectfully ask it to be turned off by default. Hack, even netscape *asks* me if I want to download a plugin or not. :-( -- Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic(a)srce.hr&gt; | Student at FER Zagreb, Croatia --------------------------------+-------------------------------- I'm a Lisp variable -- bind me!