On Sunday 13 July 2008, Julien Claassen wrote: That is the usual convention for displaying a carriage return, a chr$(13), used as the end of line marker in non-unix-ish systems. unix-ish systems have nearly always used a linefeed, a chr$(10), for the EOL character. And M$ systems use both just to try and be different. 30+ years ago most printers needed both. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Delta: We're Amtrak with wings. -- David Letterman