I am sorry to inform you that my second 3279 terminal died today - around 4 months after its brother, which died sometime in february of this year). Both terminals were around 8 years old and were obtained free of charge from their previous owner; they were, of course, unsupported, and as you know 3279's generate a lot of heat and do not like to be subjected to excessive heat themselves. These 2 3279's were the only terminals hooked to SEARN. Anyway, the bottom line is that I no longer have decent access to SEARN; I am typing this note from a *painful* tn3270 session on a *slow* ASCII terminal. I had pointed out this risk to my management several months ago and they had immediately agreed to purchase a new terminal for me, however because of a small "glitch" with the IBM bean-counting service (it would be long to explain), we have not been able to place the order yet. Given that our IBM rep is in vacations, as well as most of our and their administrative service, and given that IBM generally considers 2 months to be a perfectly reasonable delivery delay for new terminals, the situation is very unlikely to improve within the next 1-3 months. I regret to say that with this quality of access to SEARN, I am very unlikely to do anything but read and answer mail (and this is already going to take me at least 3 times as much as it used to). Trevlig sommar, Eric