>That requires co-operation from the remote end to set up an >anonymous rsync server .. doable, but as I understood the >scope of work, not within it Well, doesn't need to be anon, but none the less I am SOL wrt to ftp or rsync as none of these daemons run locally on the host. Someone pointed me to an existing script that accomplishes what I need and is actively maintained so I am in luck. Thanks guys, and I will look into lftp as I also don't like wget for much more than fast one off's at the cli. jlc