Thomas,
I followed your suggestion and was able to view both the nucmer and promer files, I used the command "v" in "less" to allow me to edit. However, when I did this something very bizarre happened to my keyboard, I think it spontaneously changed it's format. My quote/double quotes key turned into the @ symbol and my hash/3 key turned into a pound symbol (as in currency). Any idea what that is about? Or how to fix it? I can't make the changes to promer if I cannot access my characters properly
Thanks again for your help,
~Ana