Someone at this site pointed out to me that even with flow control, vt100s can't handle a whole lot of tabs. stty -tabs will turn off hardware tabs and fix the problem. Sean -- - Sean Casey UUCP: sean at ukma.UUCP or - Department of Mathematics {cbosgd,anlams,hasmed}!ukma!sean - University of Kentucky ARPA: ukma!sean at ANL-MCS.ARPA