Well that was painful. I will speculate wildly: could your MIME types be screwed up? Next: if you save that gif, and send it to a sightie, what do they tell you they see? No idea. Luke On Sat, 1 Nov 2003, Shaun Oliver wrote: > further to this here's a script containing my steps to go to google. as > you'll see, I don't get much option as to what to do. > Script started on Sat Nov 1 19:38:02 2003 [vast script removed] > [0;10;1m[33m[44mLYNXDOWNLOAD://Method=-1/File=/tmp/5ichHS/L2418-194TMP.gif/SugFile=www.google.[39;49m[0;10m[9;7H[31mSave to disk[25;80H[39;49m[0;10m[0;10;1m[33m[44mNot a searchable indexed document -- press '/' to search for a text string[0;10m[K[0;10m[0;10;1m[33m[44mLYNXDOWNLOAD://Method=-1/File=/tmp/5ichHS/L2418-194TMP.gif/SugFile=www.google.[39;49m[0;10m[C[C[C[C[C[C[0;10;1m[33m[44mEnter a filename: [0;10m[K[0;10mwww.google.com[0;10m[0;10;1m[33m[44mSaving...[0;10m[K[0;10m[25;1H[1;25r[39;49m[0;10m[4l[H[J[64GDownload Options[3;19HDownload Options (Lynx Version 2.8.4rel.1)[5d[35mDownloaded link:[39;49m http://www.google.com/[6d[35mSuggested file name:[39;49m www.google.com[8dDownload options:[9;4H[1][34mSave to disk[25d[0;10;1m[33m[44mSaving...[A[39;49m[0;10m[25d[0;10;1m[33m[44mLYNXDOWN[69 at LOAD://Method=-1/File=/tmp/5ichHS/L2418-194TMP.gif/SugFile=www.google.[39;49m[0;10m[9;7H[31mSave to disk[25;80H[39;49m[0;10m[K[0;10m[25;1Hshaun_oliver at hogwarts:~$ > Script done on Sat Nov 1 19:39:01 2003 > > > now you can see my problem. > >