Cheryl The "script" he is talking about, is the "script" command. Do a man for script (man script). It is not a script in the sense of a bash script, but is a script in the sense of a transcript. That is: it records everything that happens on screen. The "m" you were talking about, has an up-arrow before it (turn on punctuation when reading those kinds of things). A control M, or uparrow M ("^m"), is the control character, or printable form, of a carrage return. Lynx will add the slash if you don't, when it rewrites the URL. Also, no need for jumpfiles or bookmarks: doing "lynx google", will cause lynx to rewrite the URL as "google", and when that fails: "http://google", then: "http://google.com". That works, and the remote httpd server, has it reform the URL via redirection, to "http://www.google.com". The web server then, I believe (may have the order screwed up here), because everything is a directory other than files, requires lynx to, which it does, add a slash. Luke On Sat, 1 Nov 2003, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > What is the "m" for before the google url? > You know, there's what seems to me to be a simpler way to do this. > I enabled jumpfiles in lynx the cat, which you can read about in the > documentation. > I type lynx and when i get the starter page I type j and "search" and end > up at google. Or you can bookmark google and access it that way. > Seems like more work to do a script for this and it looks to me like > something may be wrong with your script anyway. > And again, when I do access google by using the url, I've never had to add > the slash at the end so I think that isn't essential in any case. > > > > >