I have problems with led, the Smartlist wrapper around your editor, hanging on FreeBSD that I didn't have on Linux and other Unixes. So I changed line 142 to: $test -z "$childpid" || $kill -15 $childpid That is, instead of sending a HUP (1) to the editor (but is it the editor, or another dist, or what?), I substituted a TERM (15). And the problem of led hanging goes away. I think it must be a peculiarity of FreeBSD HUP, but I don't know enough about this to know whether I may not be terminating Smartlist as it distributes the mail instead, something which I don't want to do. -- Greg Matheson If there is one thing we learn from the Chinmin College study of language learning, it is that language learners learn more than we learn. Taiwan Penpals Archive <URL: http://netcity.hinet.net/kurage>