I have no difficulty using save.image() from the pull down menus. It is only when I try to q() that I run into this problem. The *one* thing that has changed about my system is that I did install a new mouse (Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer 3.0 - an optical mouse). That hardly explains this problem, but is the one difference in my system that I can think of since the last time I used R 1.4.1 Dr. Marc R. Feldesman email: feldesmanm at pdx.edu email: feldesman at attglobal.net fax: 503-725-3905 "Don't know where I'm going. Don't like where I've been. There may be no exit. But hell, I'm going in." Jimmy Buffett Powered by Tyrannochoerus - the 2.2 GHz WinXPP Box -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._