Hi again, thanks for the advice offered re root disks. I've got my machine up and running. What I am now wondering is: is there a pine4 package for debian? I could only find a 3.96 package. I'd install it myself (being an ex-slackware user, this is a task i'm well accustomed to) except pine won't compile without some debian .diffs, because debian got rid of libtermcap.
anyway, if anyone knows of such a package, i'd much appreciate it if they could point me in the proper direction. thanks, -Pete Rijks http://www.nd.edu/~prijks \|/ Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering -*- University of Notre Dame (Class of 2000) /|\