I picked up the latest (corrected) Puppy PSKmail and booted up two laptops. I got the client running on one, and after a bit of fooling around, got the server running on the other. The server would not run until I edited pskmailrc.pl and changed the path to the user database file. It was pointed at a directory that did not exist on the file structure that the Puppy CD set up. Once the server and the client were both running on separate laptops with fldigi also running, I connected to two together thru the audio ports, and was able to do pings with QSL responses, APRS beacons were heard and passed on the the findu system, and I was able to connect to the server with the client. However, the client would not stay connected. I did a "server update" (susccessfully) and the connection dropped. I re-connected, and did a QTC - and found no mail, and the connection dropped. I went to another PC, sent a mail to the acct that pskmail looks at, connected again and it found the mail (reported 1 header), and the connection dropped. I then connected again, requested a download of the mail, and I could see the message go out of the server, but them the server log showed an error message and it never made it to the client and the connection dropped. I assume that the connection should stay up longer than one request... It appears that there are a lot of ack/responses going from the server to the client before the connection drops. Unfortunately I managed to close the log before I was able to figure out how to copy the log to something I could e-mail to someone to look it. I saved the Puppy configuration when I quit, so perhaps it is still there. I need to figure out how to do a cut and paste in Linux so I can post it here for more help. Has anyone else run into the problems I am having ?? thanks for listening! ;>) -- 73 - Bill - N8ET Kanga US www.kangaus.com 419-423-4604 (Kanga) 419-423-5643 (home)