Holger Schauer <schauer(a)coling.uni-freiburg.de&gt; writes: N.B. Your `eingedeutschte' ftp client does not follow the response pattern EFS expects. (defvar efs-hash-mark-msgs "[hH]ash mark [^0-9]*\\([0-9]+\\)") ;; Regexp matching the FTP client's output upon doing a HASH command. Jan -- Jan Vroonhof http://www.math.ethz.ch/~vroonhof/ Mathematik, vroonhof ＠ math.ethz.ch HG E16, ETH-Zentrum, Tel: +41-1-6325456/25154 Raemistrasse 101, CH-8092 Zuerich. Fax: +41-1-6321085