Sorry, I am just getting tired that for dialing my ISP everything seems to frustrate me. I suppose a way to dial is with Diald. Now, there are no options to dial, but to connect. There are two kinds of connection: remote and local. For the remote I am asked for an IP and port. Grrr. For the local I am asked for a FIFO. Please tell me what to do to dial. By the way, I am in Gnome. Teilhard Knight The Extraterrestrial Who ate my sandwich?