Hi all, Dunnow about PDF, but you can read Word docs with antiword. It's a debian package, suspect that it's a red hat one too. Ann P. -- Ann K. Parsons email: akp at eznet.net ICQ Number: 33006854 WEB SITE: http://home.eznet.net/~akp "All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost." JRRT