Just got thinking about this the other day. Is there an ICQ client which will run in the background of bash? I am in the process of trying to do everything I need in bash and not using Xwindows (mmm.. good ol' days of DOS almost! :)), but I do a fair amount of communicating through ICQ. A cool little program that basically just allows me to keep a list of names, and send messages back and forth would be great! A cool feature would be to have a little flag pop up on your bash prompt to let you know you have a message.. such as this maybe? leif@walio leif §>$ or something like that (with § being the new message flag) Ideas? Would be cool none the less I think.. :) Leif Madsen Registered Linux User #219104 "There are two possibilities, either we are alone, or we are not. Both are equally frightening"