G'day Jimmy, Thanks for the patch, but why change from mprintf to printf at all? mprintf has a feature that printf does not have: if(!read_stdin) return; mfprintf has it as well. You are removing this feature. While I don't know of any, there may be scripts out there that depend on the robot not writing anything if the "-b" option is used. Would it be better for the Newbie server mode to start with "-b" option? -- James Cameron mailto:quozl at us.netrek.org http://quozl.netrek.org/