I decided to follow the suggestion of using xc instead of minicom. However, I can't get past the "make all" step. Here is what I believe is the relevant part of the output. Can somebody tell me what to do about this? Thanks. xcsubs.c:26: conflicting types for `ospeed' /usr/include/termcap.h:60: previous declaration of `ospeed' xcsubs.c: In function `isregfile': xcsubs.c:413: `S_IFMT' undeclared (first use in this function) xcsubs.c:413: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once xcsubs.c:413: for each function it appears in.) xcsubs.c:413: `S_IFREG' undeclared (first use in this function) make: *** [xcsubs.o] Error 1 I also looked at /usr/include/termcap.h and here are the lines that have "ospeed" in them. #undef NCURSES_OSPEED #define NCURSES_OSPEED short -- Cheryl