On 18 Jun 2011, at 08:43, hvlems at zonnet.nl wrote: Is the alpha on the network and does it have IP running? Not yet. I need to get on that. I get twitchy having enterprise hardware with no LAN. I assume one it's on a LAN I can telnet or SSH it? Did you already learn about search paths? A logical name like sys$manager translates to sys$sysdevice:[sys0.sysmgr] but also to another logical name: sys$startup. Which translates to another directory (to improve confusion). Ah. Yes, see what I mean. As a long time UNIX nerd the filesystem doesn't seem so 'logical' to me :) EDIT doesn't work you said. How about SET TERM/DEV=vt100 EDIT whatever Yep that would have been it. I complained the CRT (maybe meant terminal) wasn't ANSI enabled. Would have worked if i'd told it it was a VT100 terminal. Thanks :) I should know that, a lot of UNIXs require terminal spec at login in single user mode too. -- Mark Benson My Blog: <http://markbenson.org/blog> Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/mdbenson "Never send a human to do a machine's job..."