Why not use joe instead of pico as a 'user-friendly' editor? It is similar to wordstar/Borland editors, so I'd imagine a lot of people migrating from DOS world would be familiar with it. It is a little bit bigger than pico, but not much, about 60K on our RS6000 station (I'm not sure what the exact sizes are on linux, but I'd guess the relation is similar). Davor Cubranic cubranic@whale.st.usm.edu