Michael Berkowitz ([log in to unmask]) wrote: <snip> : In this case there was no UDC, so then a valid MPE command is looked : for. Since as far back as I can remember (MPE 3 on our Series II), MPE : will assume that when a non alphabetic character is entered, that the : preceding alphabetic characters are the command, and everything else : are the parameters. Which is why MPE/iX works this way. In fact, in early pre-releases of MPE XL, it didn't work this way...and lots of ingrained human behaviors stopped producing the expected result. Most notably ":REPLY36,7". So, we opted for supporting forward compatibility of this feature. Mike P. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Mike Paivinen [log in to unmask] Hewlett-Packard CSY - Mailstop 47UA 19447 Pruneridge Avenue Cupertino, CA 95014