On 10/29/2012 04:07 PM, Jordi Guillaumes i Pons wrote: Now that there is some TOPS-20 chatter in the list, I have a question for the experts... My VAXen have ANNOUNCE banners with escape sequences so the screen gets erased, some text gets highlighted, some other gets reversed and so on. I have tried to do a similar banner for my TOPS20 system, but the <ESC> characters don't get to the terminal. It is like the terminal driver cleans up the stream somehow: @type announce.txt [2J[0;0H[1m HECNet - The Hobbyist DECnet network [7;1m [27m [[[[[[[[ [[[[ [[[[[[[[[[ [[ [[ [[[[[[[[[[ [[[[[[[ [[ [[ [[ [[ [[ [[ [[ [[[ [[ [[ [[ [[ [[[[ [[ [[ That is just the beginnign of the banner, but you can get the idea. The question is: Is there any way to configure the terminal driver so the <ESC> don't get cleared? I don't know, but I can tell you that ANNOUNCE banners with embedded escape sequences were always frowned upon when I was a commercial VMS admin. -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA