Have you tried screen? :) Seriously, It's a GNU app, maybe somebody put conditionals in for VMS. It would take a bit of work. I have considered trying that, myself, if it's not already done, but it would have to wait until my Cthugha on IRIX is working solidly, putting it somewhere ahead of TERM on the UnixPC in the project pipeline ;) You can use spawn/nowait to run stuff "in the background," somewhat like the Unix "thing &" -- you can even use SET PROCESS (I think) to switch between foreground and background jobs, and EVE will let you at least run DCL commands in a window. I'm not sure whether you can have more than one DCL command in different windows at the same time, but I don't see why not. At any rate, the best bet if you really want "screen" is to try running "screen" on it. :) Chris Christopher Smith, Perl Developer Amdocs - Champaign, IL /usr/bin/perl -e ' print((~"\x95\xc4\xe3"^"Just Another Perl Hacker.")."\x08!\n"); '