In a message dated 3/29/99 8:07:57 PM Pacific Standard Time, ziggy2282@juno.com writes: I know of only one way to lock the basic stuff. With the 00 or null set. With hexedit << Is there any way that you could find out the hex that graphlink puts at the beginning of Basic progs to lock them? That way you could type in a hex code on the first line of ur prog which would lock it. ~Nick >>