I just thought I would let y'all know that the call OTH_ARROW does not work correctly in Usgard 1.0. Go to the Online Zshell school at Yarin's homepage to learn how to read the keypad port directly, the output is nearly the same. Here is the address: http://www.algonet.se/~mja/ -- Terry Peng <tpeng@geocities.com> "cool kids never have the time..."