Hi, I'm trying to edit .netscape/prefereces.js I have edited a few files before with no problems but with this file what I've added doesn't stay in the file. I'm trying to add this line, user_pref("mailnews.reply_on_top", True); I am using joe and when I exit with 'ctrl k-x' it says that the file is saved. I am in root when doing it. I restart xdm and look at the file and the line is gone. I contacted the netscape unix news group about this but no one seems to know what is going on. What am I doing wrong? I used ls -l on the file and got -rw-rw-r-- which if I'm right that means I can read and write to the file and I understand when editing as root none of that matters so I'm clueless. Thanks, Kent