hec wrote: >thank you all for your tips for working with word X. now i am doing >my work in os 10.2.8 and i have a new difficulty. i use eudora 6.1 >as my mail application and it installed into os x properly except it >doesn't recognize the domain name of my server (a cable connection). >all the settings are the same as the ones in the 0s 9.2.2 what could >the problem be? my browers all work properly. It might be worth taking a look at the Network preference panel, and seeing if you have anything entered in the Configure... -> "DNS Servers" [sic] space. Do other network utilities (e.g. Safari) work OK in 10.2.8? If not, you might want to use another Domain Name Server. Sorry, but without more details, it's hard to be more specific. Joe Gurman -- "I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they go by." - Douglas Adams, 1952 - 2001 Joseph B. Gurman, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Solar Physics Branch, Greenbelt MD 20771 USA