the rpmbuild thingy worked great on my servers, after that i did the rpm -Uvh and that worked as well. but it only worked on my servers, i have the tn5250 program their but i need it on this other linux machine. it gives me the "rpmbuild command not found", i figure its not installed. i'm trying to keep everything to a min on this machine, so i guess i need to copy the tn5250 files from my server to a floppy, then put the floppy in the other linux machine and copy it from the floppy to somewhere and try to run it. which files do i copy ?? still wishing someone would just e-mail me the rpm's p.s. thanks for the fast response on the last question. sorry to say, i'm just gettin started with the dumb questions. _______________________________________________ This is the Linux 5250 Development Project (LINUX5250) mailing list To post a message email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, visit: http://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo/linux5250 or email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives at http://archive.midrange.com/linux5250.