Seems possible that Lynx timed out and generated and sh left only an empty file.
Guard against this by writing the output of lynx to a temporary file and either check it for stuff you expect to be there (<!-- comments -->?) or for some reasonable size. There are better was to do this, of course... Gavin ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])