John beat me to it. Im not a cobol programmer so I had to ask someone. Looking in my cobol II/xl manual there is a SPECIAL-NAMES section. I believe someplace there is a reference to C09 for VFC channel 9. So when you do a print field after advan... end-of-form (is this the special name?) the old pcl is emitted. See page 9-142 same manual (Write) I would recomend changing code so you could use specialnames like PAGE, TOP. But if you are printing footers then maybe checking line count and printing your own blank lines. If you have not the source, you could create a TTFILE to use for an environment, and define channel 9 to be the escape codes as john mentioned. If not specified, I believe there is a default TTFILE that is used. Not sure what it is at the moment. Note: The TTFILE points to the VFC file that is used. Use TTUTIL.PUB.SYS to edit them. ********************* * Keven Miller KC7LYD * [log in to unmask] (Salt Lake City, Utah, USA) * ICQ 5721825 *********************