>  
> So what's the issue here? GETting a directory listing is 
> quite trivial - you GET the dirname 
> (http://tai42.xs4all.nl/~cg/mc) and get back an HTML file that
contains a bunch of links - some of them extraneous (like sort 
> buttons, link to parent folder), some of them to targets that are
called "whatever.mcv". So just parse the directory listing for <A >
HREF="*.mcv">.

It would be kind of nice to GET just a text file that lists the
filenames ( a la updates.list )..