Quite right thanks Andrew - slowly getting the hang of dselect. Next step: lex -oclientscan.c clientscan.l make: lex: Command not found any idea where lex is to be found? K. > ---------- > From: Andrew Howell[SMTP:andrew at vila.it.net.au] > > Ummm you've got libc6-dev and binutils installed as well? > > Make is useful too :) > > Andrew >