Tom H said.....Windows XP has no problem connecting to an ftp site without a special ftp program.
That's true, but it's been my experience that Explorer has problems making large downloads...e.g. the contents of a CD-ROM. My company's clients often upload very large (>1GB) zip files to our ftp site, and have all kinds of problems with Explorer. I've also seen it with unzipped directories. The transfer just slows down and eventually stops. We recommend that our users use a product called Filezilla to do ftp uploads and downloads from our site. Besides, it seems to be faster than Explorer... Royce Engler '85 300TD 298K (expect to break 300K in the next couple of weeks)