If you press PF1 to get the help for this panel, you will see that this is working exactly as described there. As someone else discussed, PF5 will get you to a screen where you can type your command in one continuous stream.
Someone noted that the SLIP command is "quirky." Perhaps so, but only because the command can at times exceed the 126 character limit for a command line imposed by the operating system. (See MVS System Commands Reference.) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN