Jonathan, thanks—if the developer’s stuff is indeed a reqirement, then that would explain a lot about why this doesn’t seem to be working. (And that should be among the very first things in any installation instructions.) Unfortunately, with a 3GB hard drive, I don’t have room to install the developer stuff. There were other installations of Unix things that I needed in the past that required that and it took up too much space. However the latest install instructions for those items somehow let me get around that with Fink and Fink Commander. So if there’s a way to install Remind with out installing the many MB of developer stuff that would be really helpful.

Merlin, I’m not sure you understood my problem—I wan’t able to complete the “3 steps” to begin with. The thing is, one of the things your blog is very good at is bridging the gulf b/w the techno-elite and everybody else with a view to helping people do stuff faster. If indeed you have the broader audience that I supsect, an installation of this evidently great software should not have to begin with a long open-ended Google quest. That’s exactly the bone I’m trying to pick here. My gratitude goes out to the generous Unix folk—I wouldn’t be pursuing this if I didn’t think they had in some way seen the light.