Great, problem solved and thanks again for your patience.

OK I have a chance to do some reading and thinking.

So

Gkdial and wvdial both seem to be included in Puppy.

I think I was using Gkdial.

To modify either Gkdial or wvdial I use a text editor to open the revevant file right? No need to use konsole or get a command promp at all.

Wow Mouldy. Thanks very much!

Please see the post below. Apologies for my slowness.

I can't play around with Puppy at present because I can't get Puppy to run on my newish computers . I will have to wait until next I go to GFs place.

Thanks very much for the response The modem works fine in pulse with Windows 98. In Windows there are radio buttons to set the dial type. Perhaps I was not clear. What I need to know is how to initialise the modem in Puppy to pulse dial rather than tone dial. I saw something about the iniialisation ...

I have searched the forums but couldn't find anything on this. Please help me if you can. I am a complete beginner in Linux but am highly impressed with the way Puppy runs on my grandfather's Celeron with 64 Mb of memory I need to setup the dialer to use pulse rather than tone dialing. Hard to belie...