Well, while I cannot accurately answer your questions, I can say that bittorrent-console seems quite friendly so far, now in FC6. However, sometimes when I use L Y N X to download a small torrent file, the file is zipped in a gz format. But when I run gunzip on it-and-download from my unix shell, the torrent is corrupted. Seemingly during the last year or 2 many have switched from p2p to these torrents, thinking it was an ultimate solution. Sure I can still sometimes find-and-grab successfully, but I also think the sites are becoming much more cluttered--and-God4bid javascript. Hart