What I do about spellchecking is, I make it automatic so I cannot avoid it. I have created a very short script which is invoked as an alternate editor from pine. The script first runs an actual editor (I use nano instead of pico but it would work the same for pico) and then immediately goes into the spellchecker on the file I just composed. It is a pain in the ewe-no-ware for a while, but believe me, it improves your habits in a hurry. BTW -- nano and pico are measurement terms in science referring to negative powers of ten. Nano is like pico only more so!!! Chuck -- The Moon is Waxing Crescent (1% of Full) So visit me sometime at http://www.mhonline.net/~chuckh