Rein, I erased all the double directories and files on the pc and the problem has been solved. No more multiple fldigi and pskmail_servers opening up. Thank you for your response, I knew that it had to be something wrong on my end and not in the program itself. It just took me quite a while to figure out what was happening. In the beginning when I unpacked the pskmail_server-1.8.0.tar.gz it created files and directories in home, .pskmail and /usr/local/share/ . Each directory had in them pskmailrc.pl - arq.pm - rflinkserver.pl - files along with qrg directories. Now there is only one of each and all is well. very 73, Glenn