While in QEDIT, I thought I'd see how the Posix tail program worked with the '-f' option. I entered: /:tail.hpbin.sys "-f ./FILE" tail dutifully displayed the last 10 lines and stopped, waiting for more records from ./FILE. I then typed control-Y and got an END OF PROGRAM message - because QEDIT terminated, not just tail. This isn't a QEDIT problem - I get the same result occurs when running tail from Edit/3000 and even through multiple CREATEPROCESSes. They all unravel back to the CI. We're just up on C.50.00 and I hadn't tried this on an earlier release. Feature? Bug? -- ------------------------------------------------------------- Randy Medd email: [log in to unmask] Telamon, Inc. 492 Ninth Street, Suite 310 voice: 510-987-7700 Oakland, CA 94607 fax: 510-987-7009 -------------------------------------------------------------