My VMS Conundrums... [long - multiple replies]

Well, a: SET TERM/DEV=vt100 (I think) will get you past that, but I don't know whether the console will support enough VT escapes to run TPU. Maybe. :) Try it and see. Generally the graphics subsystems on VAXen are only used for running a windowing system. If you wanted to run DECWindows, it's a different story. Well, if your CoCo runs OS9, I'll agree with that last part. Still, it shouldn't be such a problem on your VAX. Actually that's not as bad as it seems. First off, you can abbreviate default to "DEF", and [000000] to [0,0] Next, you generally don't need to change to the root directory, because there's not much there aside from the index file (which it's usually bad to manipulate by hand ;) VMS also will assume that if you SET DEF [FOO] FOO is in the root directory. Otherwise it wants you to prepend a directory separator, and say [.FOO] Chris Christopher Smith, Perl Developer Amdocs - Champaign, IL /usr/bin/perl -e ' print((~"\x95\xc4\xe3"^"Just Another Perl Hacker.")."\x08!\n"); '