Thank you! What a relief! Now it works. Sergio Mr. Christopher F. Miller wrote: >I had this problem on a lot of my systems, all of which >are cloned with roots ultimately in a 1994 slackware >A-E disk install. It seems the /dev/ directory is just >obsolete. > >cd /dev > >./MAKEDEV std >./MAKEDEV generic > >fixed that. > >You might need to touch up perms on some devices after that; >my efax couldn't open modem, etc... > >cfm