Not likely, I don't have electricity in my storage units, and the only receptical is a LONG ways away! Besides my wife wouldn't like me hiding out up there, she doesn't mind when I hid out in the computer room at home. Oh, and then there is the fact that if I'm going to be writing something in BASIC, it's going to be on a PDP-10, PDP-11 or a VMS box. Which brings up the question of how do you clear the screen on a VT100 using BASIC-PLUS-2? The following works on my Alpha using DEC BASIC, and looks like it should work using BASIC-PLUS-2. 1 declare string constant CLS = ESC + "[H" + ESC + "[J" 110 print CLS Zane