On Mon Nov 6 2006, Schwartzkopff,Dirk HG-Dir itb-sy wrote: > Thanks, works fine. I am using an ASCII / EBCDIC environment (Linux and z/OS on IBM mainframes) so I had to switch the text mode on and off. > I think the best solution is to add an host alias like (mainframe_text) to /etc/hosts or DNS or is there a better solution? That sounds like a solution indeed, even though you'll have to remember to switch the hostname to switch the download mode. I just don't know how we could give that choice in the graphical user interface without bothering most users with it. -- David Faure, faure@kde.org, sponsored by Trolltech to work on KDE, Konqueror (http://www.konqueror.org), and KOffice (http://www.koffice.org).