On Sunday, Dec 21, 2003, at 15:19 US/Pacific, Dan Devine wrote: > > Done, leading LF removed, order is FF,"Hello1",CR,LF,"Hello2", etc. > > no luck....still prints out like > > Hello1 > Hello2 > 84 (or whatever number) > Hello3 > What is CR defined as? Check the generated assembler to be sure. mnemonic constants are great except when they're not what you expected them to be. Thanks to the whole unix/dos/etc end-of-line oddness, some constants are not what you expect :-( You don't have a network connection in there anywhere, do you? That can introduce additional problems... BillW -- http://www.piclist.com#nomail Going offline? Don't AutoReply us! email listserv@mitvma.mit.edu with SET PICList DIGEST in the body