I should say a bit more about this and please pardon the obliqueness of the topic although it intersects it is sort of targeted at unix rather than linux as has been seen.I ssh into osx which has been possible for quite some time so that osx is not quite as inaccessible as it might seem at least from that point of view. I have been able to get sirc up and running and there is also a variant of lynx that is packaged for osx and some other apps. Thanks for any help. _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list