> well, gdb produce this output: You have no debugging symbols so this is useless. Try recompiling minicom with the appropriate options. dpkg-buildpackage should help you here. > I use hurd(20000412) & gnumach(1.2-8) Your hurd is ancient; try getting hurd_20001204. Your gnumach is fine though. -Neal -- Neal H Walfield University of Massachusetts at Lowell neal@walfield.org or neal@cs.uml.edu