I wrote: >>This is a problem which has existed at least a decade and is well known. If >>you check comp.risks about 1984 or 1985 you'll see an article by me about it, >>and I was hardly the first. We demonstrated it via "write", or just echo'ing >>directly to the port, to put it in block mode, clear the screen, send the >>command we wanted executed, and then send the code to tell the terminal to send >>the contents of the screen. >From the desk of Christopher Klaus: > Will this work with vt100 terminals? Well, then you get into a argument. What do you mean by "vt100"? Apparently, a real, live, standard DEC VT100 terminal did not support the block mode sequence I talked about in my article, but one version of the DEC VT100 did, and pretty much every VT100 clone did as well, and the real DEC VT102 I had also supported it. Using block mode is not the only to get the terminal to send something, of course. aem -- Andrew Mossberg Network Administrator & Juggler (305) 597-4110 fax 597-4002