show complains about this format file; [summer@possum summer]$ cat /etc/nmh/mhl.format ; mhl.format ; ; default message filter for `show' ; : overflowtext="***",overflowoffset=5 leftadjust,compwidth=9 ignores=msgid,message-id,received,content-type,content-transfer-encoding,co ntent-id Date:formatfield="%<(nodate{text})%{text}%|%(pretty{text})%>" To: cc: From: decode Subject: decode : extras:nocomponent : body:nocomponent,overflowtext=,overflowoffset=0,noleftadjust [summer@possum summer]$ That's bad enough, but 1 It does naughty things to my screen before it needs to. 2 Having done those naughty things, it does not undo them when it discovers it didn't need to do them in the first place. Here's the result: [summer@possum summer]$ scan 1 01/05 [EMAIL PROTECTED] RPMs built on Mon May 1 08:45:02 WST 2000<<Error building nvi-1.49-4a >> 2 02/05 [EMAIL PROTECTED] RPMs built on Tue May 2 08:45:10 WST 2000<<Error building nvi-1.49-4a >> 3 04/05 [EMAIL PROTECTED] RPMs built on Thu May 4 08:45:03 WST 2000<<Error building procps-2.0.6-6 Succeeded building gho 4 04/05 [EMAIL PROTECTED] RPMs built on Thu May 4 08:45:04 WST 2000<<Succeeded building ghostscript-6.01-1 Error building 5 09/05 [EMAIL PROTECTED] RPMs built on Tue May 9 08:45:03 WST 2000<<Error building lilo-21-78 Error building kdebase-1.1 6 09/05 [EMAIL PROTECTED] RPMs built on Tue May 9 08:45:03 WST 2000<<Error building lilo-21-78 Error building sudo-1.6.1- 7 10/05 [EMAIL PROTECTED] RPMs built on Wed May 10 08:45:04 WST 2000<<Error building kdesupport-1.89.20000421-1 >> 8 10/05 [EMAIL PROTECTED] RPMs built on Wed May 10 08:45:02 WST 2000<<Succeeded building kdesupport-1.89.20000421-1 >> 9 11/05 [EMAIL PROTECTED] RPMs built on Thu May 11 08:45:02 WST 2000<<Error building wine-20000213-1 >> 10 11/05 [EMAIL PROTECTED] RPMs built on Thu May 11 08:45:05 WST 2000<<Error building wine-20000213-1 >> 11 13/05 [EMAIL PROTECTED] RPMs built on Sat May 13 08:45:05 WST 2000<<Error building lyx-1.1.4-3 Error building abisuite- 12 13/05 [EMAIL PROTECTED] RPMs built on Sat May 13 08:45:02 WST 2000<<Error building lyx-1.1.4-3 Succeeded building rpmpr 13 16/05 [EMAIL PROTECTED] RPMs built on Tue May 16 08:45:02 WST 2000<<Error building tomcat-3.1-2 Succeeded building apac 14+ 16/05 [EMAIL PROTECTED] RPMs built on Tue May 16 08:45:04 WST 2000<<Error building tomcat-3.1-2 Error building apache-1 15 17/05 [EMAIL PROTECTED] RPMs built on Wed May 17 08:45:04 WST 2000<<Succeeded building ant-0.3.1-1 Succeeded building a 16 17/05 [EMAIL PROTECTED] RPMs built on Wed May 17 08:45:03 WST 2000<<Succeeded building ant-0.3.1-1 Succeeded building a [summer@possum summer]$ show 1 (Message 2000_05/rpmbuilder:1) mhl: format file syntax error: To: [summer@possum summer]$ (Message 2000_05/rpmbuilder:2) mhl: format file syntax error: To: [summer@possum summer]$ bash: nextmmmm: command not found [summer@possum summer]$ [summer@possum summer]$ bash: gg: command not found [summer@possum summer]$ nmh-1.0-6 [summer@possum summer]$ Happens in kvt and konsole, both components of kde, and in xterm. I'm running Red Hat Linux 6.1, nmh-1.0-6 In case it's not clear, the 'naughty thing' is (at the very least) turning off the echoing of keyboard input; the reset command clears the problem )and the screen!). I think I've had this problem before too, with other commands in nmh. -- Cheers John Summerfield http://os2.ami.com.au/os2/ for OS/2 support. Configuration, networking, combined IBM ftpsites index.