dexter needs to depend on a recent version of dialog. I was installing on a machine with an old dialog version (sorry, not sure which) that didn't have the --nocancel option and dexter dies on this. An upgrade of dialog fixed it. -dave -- David I. Lehn <dlehn@vt.edu> | http://www.lehn.org/~dlehn/ Computer Engineering Graduate @ Virginia Tech in sunny Blacksburg, VA