Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club! Thank you, Glenn, for your comments. The missing letter thing is mysterious and I have not observed it before just a few days ago. I checked my other computer (a pentium 3) where I am doing experimental Arachne while I was on line reading your message and there were (this time) no missing letters on the original Arachne.cfg. It is possible ZIP screwed up the characters when I used it to transfer Arachne.CFG from my P3 to my 486, but I cannot recall any previous occasion when ZIP screwed me up. Interestingly enough, the "IP_ADDRESS 0.0.0.0." is eactly what A190j1 put in when I unpacked the ZIP archive and ran the intstall programme. I deliberately avoided changing anything installed by the Arachne installer. I presume I should change it to the value you said is correct. I will try to log on to VCN again leaving out terminal on and autologin. I presume at this point I should try the default login sequence on one trial and subsequently make another trial using the login sequence you gave me 3 weeks ago or so. I sure wish VCN would get back to me with the precise login conversation their server wants to have with an incoming browser. I did download their login instructions for windows 3.1, but they were just about useless to me as they consist entirely of what settings to make in Windows before trying to log in but do not include a structured login sequence. By the way, do you have any idea why PPP.LOG is not to be found after Arachne fails to properly login at VCN? Arachne at FreeLists -- Arachne, The Premier GPL Web Browser/Suite for DOS --