You can increase this value. Just go the properties sheet of your connection and click the Settings tab and you'll see "Backscroll Buffer Lines." Regards, Tim Hamel In a message dated 2/21/00 8:12:09 PM Pacific Standard Time, martech@OZEMAIL.COM.AU writes: > I need to transfer ASCII, comma delimited data, to a PC and was using > Hyperterminal. I discovered that it was not getting all the data and it > seems Hyperterminal is limied to 500 lines that can be back scrolled. Does > anyone know of a shareware/freeware program to do this but with many more > lines than Hyperterminal. >