Oh ya, I didn't give you an example: (I've logged into the remote system) "~%take t.c" (it's there and I can read it ) (the following is echoed on the screen:) "mesg n; echo '~>':t.c; cat t.c; echo '~>';msg y" (new line) "~>" (now the contents of t.c is printed on the screen) (next comes:) "can't divert ~>" (what the hell happened??)