Rasmus writes: > For now I will go with Option I. Well, turned out to be a bad idea. Instead I tested all flags in (man "ls") and exclude the flags that caused trouble. Note, I only have one ftp to test against. . . I'm assuming this one is somewhat common. Also, a limitation of the `ange-ftp-switches-ok' is that it's too destructive: I.e. rather than removing offending ls-flags, it will entirely disregard the whole thing. I guess that's another patch, though. If you find the patch OK, feel free to submit. Otherwise, let me know what to improve. Thanks, Rasmus -- The right to be left alone is a human right