On 9 Feb 2013, at 15:33, "Brian Schenkenberger, VAXman-" <system at TMESIS.COM> wrote: Sampsa Laine <sampsa at mac.com> writes: So the full command would look something like: $MCR NCP SHOW KNOWN NODES TO FOOBAR $EDIT/TECO FOOBAR.LIST <FS($(<a>$FS)$</a>)$;> [...something to quit TECO goes here...] How do I exit TECO? EX$$ Also, if you need to put this into a script to do repeated edits of this nature, you can put the TECo commands into the logical TEC$INIT. Getting the ESCAPE into a logical string is left as an exercise for the original poster. ;) In the end I went with a Python script that build an HTML table, you can see it at http://rhesus.sampsa.com/cgi-bin/hecnetinfo/hecnetinfo.com RHESUS is an dual processor Itanic so it runs Python quite snappily :) sampsa