That's because it isn't actually coveed in the manual I don't think. Basically what you do is open a new page/chapter to use as a terminal. Once in that page you need to use the setup/status menu to set your hardware handshaking, 8-bit word, parity to none and 1 stop bit. Then you turn on the serial port although I can't remember off-hand the command something like chord-t or chord-h t. You can find it in your help page though. There are other command you can use to customize things like ornamentation and how the cursor tracks in coming data. It isn't a vt-100 emulator but that won't matter unless you want to use ncurses package such as emacs, lynx and pine. Kirk -- Kirk Reiser The Computer Braille Facility e-mail: kirk@braille.uwo.ca University of Western Ontario phone: (519) 661-3061