At the moment a darcs get retrieves and applies 1996 patches. Perhaps it's time for one of those fancy tags that allows people to not retrieve the entire branch history? That'd speed up fresh checkouts. Tony -- [][][] Tony Garnock-Jones | Mob: +44 (0)7905 974 211 [][] LShift Ltd | Tel: +44 (0)20 7729 7060 [] [] http://www.lshift.net/ | Email: tonyg at lshift.net