Try this: cat </dev/tty<their number> If this doesn't work, try this one: cat </dev/tty<#> echo It's been a while, so don't quote me on this. I'm just trying to help :-) Robert S. Radvanovsky spock%calstate at cunyvm.cuny.edu (Internet) California Polytechnic Univ. spock at calstate (BITNET) Pomona, California