On 10/29/2012 04:22 PM, Jordi Guillaumes i Pons wrote: El 29/10/2012, a les 21:18, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> va escriure: 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. Hehehe that is the good part of being a hobyist :) On the other hand, we used those banners back in the day... no one complained. In fact, everyone used them. :) In commercial shops? From my perspective that's pretty unusual. -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA