From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npoiv!npois!ucbvax!info-vax Newsgroups: fa.info-vax Title: Article-I.D.: ucbvax.8172 Posted: Sat Jul 31 17:05:49 1982 Received: Sun Aug 1 03:17:20 1982 >From decvax!utzoo!utcsstat!corot@Berkeley Sat Jul 31 16:51:02 1982 THis is a reply to your query about gettinginto a .COM file. Your problem is your editor. I use EDT normally (full screen) and one can insert a single by hitting the ESC key twice. EDT says clearly where the is. In TECO one can insert any ASCII character by giving its decimal value followed by i (for example 27i ). Note that the TYPE command in VMS does not display the line following a line ending with correctly. (This may be my vt100 eating characters as an "escape sequence">) Corot Reason, University of Toronto.