Actually, the makefile is ok. And one step in the process is "make lowercase" and that works too, but that's where a file is misnamed and you have to change the name of the file. i think it's some kind of readme that has the problem. But once the error is seen, one just renames the file and redoes the make. I've also found that sometimes english.dic gets seen as a directory when you go to run nfbtrans; I have no idea why. Then you have to erase it from where you've put it and recopy it over from your nrbtrans source directory. and I got the same response from Randy; he doesn't currently have a linux/unix system to work on it with. Cheryl