This was caused by a broken installation of X11. Now, amazingly, at least the obvious things all work. Alan Davis > After upgrading to slink (using apt-get dist-upgrade from hamm) man > displays empty pages. Is there a font problem? -- Alan E. Davis Marianas High School (Science Department) AAA196, Box 10001 adavis@netpci.com http://www.saipan.netpci.com/~adavis Saipan, MP 96950 15.16oN 145.7oE GMT+10 Northern Mariana Islands