Thanks, John, that works in Xy4DOS. I tried issuing d lc=from the command line and it changed all the line-ending displays. Now I can vary that to check what's going on in my cutting and pasting.> I think there's some way to change the onscreen line-end character in > Xy, but I don't recall how. In xy III, there was the lc setting: lc=ùHarry Binswanger hb@xxxxxxxx