Rudy and Dave, Thanks. It is working for me now. One more question: I would like the prompt to be just a dollar sign, the screen number and greater than. For example: $2> This is because I don't want the prompt to take up more space on my Braille display than necessary. How do i change the export line to do this? Thanks. John -- Computers to Help People, Inc. http://www.chpi.org 825 East Johnson; Madison, WI 53703