Yes, you can run the BNS as a "dumb terminal". To do this, open an empty file and turn the serial port on, with whatever parameters your Linux machine is set up to accept. Then, wirk. You have the BNS's cursoring at your disposal. The traffic between the machine and Linux box will simply get appended to the BNS file. Note, you won't have any screen model, so, programs like Pine don't work well in this arrangement. If you wish a fully functional VT100 on the BNS, you have to run something like brlterm on the notetaker. Doing this, you have full terminal mode and some 'scrol back'. I forget how many lines; it's been a while since I've done this. Anyway, it's a quick and dirty way to get a talking Linux. -Dave _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list