Hi, oops... you may want to add to my dummy HPCICOMMAND: Procedure hpsetccode; intrinsic; ... hpsetccode (2); {2 is ccE} Also, after saving a copy of TELNET.ARPA.SYS somewhere, you could use LINKEDIT's ALTPROG command to make a "global" change like: ALTPROG TELNET.ARPA.SYS;XL="DUMMYXL.ARPA.SYS" then, individual :RUN commands won't need to say "XL=". (Thanks, Gavin) SS