cog, I am trying diald. May have let myself in for a real treat! For some reason I lost all my lib files for KDE, may have been a HD glitch, no, not the operator. Reinstalled KDE, probably the hard way to do it. Thought it was too easy with kppp, but can't even get that to extract from bz2 format. If anyone tells me Linux is easy. . . . Your script ready? Bud