I'm in the middle of writing a small gawk script that sends the content of a text file to the printer, in character form, to fill in a printed form. Query: is there a way, similar to Basic's LPRINT CHR$(27);CHR$(41), to send control chars to the printer from gawk ? TIA, Ron the Frog, programming on the banks of the Paraguay River. -- Hindsight is an exact science. --- http://personales.conexion.com.py/~rolgiati ---