When I try to use the PUI in the current CVS 21.2, it gives the following error: FTP Error: CWD 550 /pub/xemacs/packages/package-index.LATEST.pgp/: Not a directory failed: In tracing this, I fould that efs-get-file-entry calls efs-allow-child-lookup (definition included below) to decide whether the path it has is a file or a directory. When I looked up dired-local-variables-file (in dired/dired.el), I found a description which indicates that efs-allow-child-lookup should not be using it. (efs-defun efs-allow-child-lookup nil (host user dir file) ;; Returns non-nil if in directory DIR, FILE could possibly be a subdir ;; according to its file-name syntax, and therefore a child listing should ;; be attempted. Note that DIR is in directory syntax. ;; i.e. /foo/bar/, not /foo/bar. ;; Deal with dired. Anything else? (not (and (boundp 'dired-local-variables-file) (stringp dired-local-variables-file) (string-equal dired-local-variables-file file)))) I have no idea how to fix this. Craig