Perhaps this is no longer a bug, but FWIW by doing a change on the forms-based option menu, you can toggle colors on and off, v2.8.2rel.1. I discovered this using the public access Sailor site, so I know nothing about the way it was compiled. Go to "telnet://sailor.lib.md.us/," and choose "vt220" as your terminal type. When you visit the Sailor Home Page, I think you'll find it to be white print on a black background. Go to the O)ptions Menu, and change any item, then hit return on link 1, Accept Changes. Things change to color. Do another change on the O)ptions Menu, and you'll be back to black and white. __Henry