Art Landrey said: >No luck -- my keystrokes do not show, nor is there any response when I >hit return. (?) I haven't used Zterm for many years, but I seem to recall that there is a menu command called something like "echo input" that you have to enable to get Zterm to show your input onscreen. Or, you could try a different terminal program. There are about half a dozen for OS X. Randy B. Singer Co-Author of: The Macintosh Bible (4th, 5th and 6th editions) Routine OS X Maintenance and Generic Troubleshooting http://www.macattorney.com/ts.html