thanks for your input. you've just demonstrated your awesome powers as a linux guru by belittling myself for not knowing how to remove a simple ansi screen. don't you feel better now? perhaps it doesn't matter to you because you already know how to do it but i for one do not and would appreciate any help regarding the matter. if it's a setting that can be changed within linux then this NEWBIE list would probably be the place to ask don't you think? if you really don't feel like helping then go ahead and delete the email. i didn't force you to answer the question. and by the way, if you're so brilliant and able to disregard this as a problem then maybe you don't belong in the NEWBIE list at all. At 12:09 AM 8/11/99 -0400, you wrote: >Give me an F---ing break!!! This list is for people with real linux >problems, not real people with decorating problems. > >Dave Waddling > >----- Original Message ----- >From: KSL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: August 10, 1999 11:17 PM >Subject: [newbie] that penguin at the login prompt > > >> just wondering, how do i get rid of that ansi penguin at the login prompt? >> it really doesn't appeal to me. >