Prof Brian D Ripley wrote: > The obvious area exists on the ftp site but is empty, for example > > ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/acrobatreader/win/5.x/ > > is where the pattern says Windows versions will be and the directory > exists. This is not empty: ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/acrobatreader/mac/5.x/ glb