I may have asked this before, but I'm not sure if I got anything out of it.......... I have a phone system to which I have a line attached to com1 on one of my debian boxes. Once I set the baud, blah, blah, I can open minicom and capture the input from this port to a file. Problem is, minicom will only write to the file once a buffer is filled. What I would really like is some simple command line that can read the input and I can redirect this to a file. Anyone have any tips here? Mike mgcon@getnet.com http://www.getnet.com/~mgcon Phoenix, AZ USA