>[snip] >> What am I missing...?? >> > >Try setting your terminal type in ISPF Settings to '6' = 3278T.
Looks just like plain garbage to be. Probably this member has gone through a couple of code page translations.... >From looking at the text I'd say the x'8B's and x'9B's are meant to be curly braces. None of the code pages I "know" has them at those code points. I don't have a clue what the garbage before the MF= could be, though. -- Peter Hunkeler Credit Suisse ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html