I have recently begun learning about "screen", and among other things I noticed something interesting. for what ever reason, I like to have my backspace key speak the character I'm deleting while composing a message,perhaps this is a testiment to my lousy typing, and even using Nano inside of Pine, this never worked. Lately, however, if I invoke screen before composing a message in Pine, the backspace works exactly as I like it to. Before discovering screen, which I'm still learning, I simply thought it was some strange interaction between Speakup, Pine and the editor of choice, which in this case happens to be Nano. can anyone explain why this is or should I just be happy and enjoy it? thanks. Dan Murphy mailto:mweeby at verizon.net MSN only: mweeby at earthlink.net