This means that xterm has two distinct windows: VT102 and Tek 4014. It'll switch between them when receiving the right control codes. Life isn't fair. Many search engines tend to be heavily oriented towards flashy, glitzy sites that overload on META tags, have little in the way of actual information, but lots of useless pictures. (Sorry if I just insulted 97% of the web sites in existence, but it's true.) Some search sites pride themselves at removing web pages from their index if the information is more than a few weeks old. (Hotbot, in particular, though others are now adopting this strategy in response to hotbot's heavy TV advertising.) I think that you're talking about the xterm auto-switching between Tek 4014 window and VT102 window when receiving the appropriate control codes. As your VT102 doesn't do Tek 4014, this isn't applicable. (For those who haven't been using X-windows for the past decade, "xterm" is a commonly used terminal emulator for X-windows.) One gripe about terminal emulators: *never ever* assume that because an emulator supports an escape code, feature, or function key, that the item being emulated supports it. An example from an article of mine that Rick thought was relevant enough to include in his archive (http://www.cs.utk.edu/~shuford/terminal/emulation_how_to_news.txt): The worst offender I've found is a commercial editor that requires VT100 users to hit F5 through F10 to access certain abilities that are rather necessary - such as exiting the editor. Despite repeated phone calls to the company, I've yet to convince them that a VT100 does NOT have F5 through F10 function keys. They claim that because some popular Windows-based emulators implement these function keys in VT100 mode, a real VT100 must as well. Arrggghhh!!!! I'm tempted to deliver a half-dozen true VT100's to their corporate offices via catapult. Gees, that's news to me. I've been running X-windows, and all the big X-windows applications, under VMS for most of a decade now. Yep. DECWindows = X-windows+Motif. Don't get too wrapped up in names :-) When you do manage to get it up and going, head straight for one of the big OpenVMS freeware sites (for example, http://www.decus.org/libcatalog/description_html/vs0185.html ) and have some fun! -- Tim Shoppa Email: shoppa(a)trailing-edge.com Trailing Edge Technology WWW: http://www.trailing-edge.com/ 7328 Bradley Blvd Voice: 301-767-5917 Bethesda, MD, USA 20817 Fax: 301-767-5927