For me the arrow keys NEVER work within vi on HP3000 but I never investigated too much why not. I always use the k,u, etc. to jump around. man vi could show you these secret keys ;-) ... and finally you may think if installing Samba/iX to edit files in HFS directories on your PC ;-) Best regards, Andreas Schmidt, CSC, Germany [log in to unmask] on 14/03/2000 04:45:59 PM Please respond to [log in to unmask] To: [log in to unmask] cc: (bcc: Andreas Schmidt/GIS/CSC) Subject: VI problem Recently my arrow keys quit working when I am in the posix shell running vi. What could be wrong? I am using Reflections to access the system. Carl McNamee Systems Administrator Billing Concepts