That's great - will try vi again now it's explained a bit. Steve Holdoway wrote: > The usual ansi/vt100 problem... backspace is ^H ( stty erase <backspace> ) > > However, I *really* wouldn't try to edit files over the serial link! Thanks for all the feedback Steve and Nick. Cheers, Rik PS syslog records my dnsmasq.conf edit as an error alright.