It was thus said that the Great Pete Joules once stated: Having a VT320, the ESC key can be in one of two places, depending upon how you set up the terminal (F3 for setup): F11 (or rather, where the F11 key would be if labeled as such, on my keyboard it's 'Alt Char') or just to the left of the '1' key (on my keyboard, labeled ~ESC`). One setting puts the ESC on F11, and the ~ESC` key returns ~`, the other setting has the ~ESC` key return ESC and the ~` characters are remapped to the key labeled If all else fails, you can always hit Ctrl-[ to generate an ESC character. -spc (Would like to use the VT320, just ran out of serial ports on my Linux box 8-)