Suspect I sent this to the wrong address last time: I'm running the Hobbit client on a RedHat ES3 server, the line: $BB $BBDISP "@" < $BBTMP/msg.txt in hobbitclient.sh dependably crashes the client with a segfault. If I replace the line with: $BB $BBDISP "`cat $BBTMP/msg.txt`" It works without a problem. Thanks, Larry Barber