Many thanks to several of you who helped me on installing Pronto Mail. The bit about using Perl and being online were critical. Even so, in the end I was informed that the install failed - something about "can't locate MIMI/Parser ...". I even tried xfmail only to learn that it required libstdc++-libc6.12-2.so.3. Whatever that is. Am using Mandrake 6 and continue to be astounded at the complexity of supposedly very simple programs like Pronto or xfmail. Maybe I'm just a very slow learner. Thanks again. Maybe when I upgrade to Mandrake 7 I'll try again. Michael Coady. > On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, mrc wrote: > > > When I run ProntoInstaller.pl I get the message: > > bash: ./ProntoInstaller.pl: Permission denied > > Try > perl ProntoInstaller.pl > > Off course, you need to have perl installed though! > (and remember to be online :-) > > > /niller -- M.