I was wondering if anyone has any information about the Express 3 (?) powerpatch release which is supposed to include Year2000 compliant routines for MPE/iX 5.5 and is due in September 1997 (??). I have heard that there is going to be such a release but I was wondering if anyone, particularly third-party vendors, has already received at least the Year2000 routines as part of a pre-release to start testing their code against. Any information would be of interest about the Year2000 compliance of this release. Also, as an additional question, I have just started testing MPE/iX 5.5 and have noticed a small (perhaps insignificant) difference with 5.0 With 5.0, if you enter a colon (:) at the CI prompt (top level), you merely get INVALID FIRST CHARACTER IN COMMAND NAME. If you do this on MPE/iX 5.5, it logs you off the system. Is there a reason behind this or is it a "feature"? Cheers, John Dunlop