Keven Miller <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > run with 2nd parameter. > :TELNET.ARPA.SYS hostname 25 > > (On MPE 6.0 pp2) This doesn't quite work because you can't have embedded spaces within the info string of an implied run command. Try putting the hostname and port in quotes like this: :telnet.arpa.sys 'hostname 25' Or run telnet and use the port number on the 'open' command. :telnet.arpa.sys telnet>open hostname 25 Doug. Doug Werth Beechglen Development Inc. [log in to unmask] Cincinnati, Ohio