On Fri, 11 Jan 2002, Alan Rubin wrote: | can anyone decipher this for me? maybe there is a permission error? Doesnt seem to be any permission-related errors. What is your terminal set to? 'echo $TERM' to find out. Try setting it to something such as vt100 or xterm, and then try running vi. I think that cureses might be having fits with your terminal type. /dale