Thank you for the information. As luck would have it, I thought of that when I built our Freebsd system here at work and I did build it to be able to run Linux binaries. Right now, the problem is that I can't get it to compile on Linux either although it looks like all I need is a library that contains curses.h and readline.h. I ran dselect on the Linux system and found a libcurses which is part of the ruby scripting language, but after installation of ruby, nothing changed. I am not sure what library I need on the Linux system but that is probably all that stands between success and failure. If you hadn't reminded me about FreeBSD being able to run Linux binaries, I might have not even thought of that right now. Gil Andre writes: > >Martin, > >About my last answer... > >I think the following web page would be more appropriate : > >http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/linuxemu.html