There is a way to change the default character set in Pine. It is burried in the Config section of setup. You may need to creat a file with your username. Remember that file names are case sensitive. To create the file go to the directory and run the following two commands: touch username chown username.mail username Change every occurance of username to the correct username. ======= Kirk Wood Cpt.Kirk at 1tree.net Nothing is hard if you know the answer or are used to doing it.