Hello, I found a hint to read messages with accents under a FBB BBS. Assuming you are french, you will have to check the 'french with accent' OL option under your beloved local FBB BBS. Then issue the following command to connect: call -r <port> <callsign> | recode -g ibmpc:latin1 Quite simple but it takes time before I find it ! Unfortunately the other way doesn't work: recode latin1:ibmpc | call -r <port> <callsign> because call doesn't seems to read stdin ... If you have any solution? -- 73 Gérard F6FGZ