Donald: >Anyone have a wild guess >why most of the time my Parkie digest files come as normal xxx.TXT files for >download but occasionally are served up as xxx.UUE (encoded) files? I've never tried AOL and I've never requested a digest article but my ignorance will not prevent me from venturing a guess. Could it be that some of the articles in the archive are stored as text files and some are stored as uuencoded files? Ron Reiner 48 +6mos ([log in to unmask])