"Terry Olsen" <tolsen64@hotmail.com> wrote in message 37i9fnF5d6bbdU1@individual.net">news:37i9fnF5d6bbdU1@individual.net... > Try it again. I put a "<ESC>[0" after the detect sequence to see if it > would reset the text to normal. Still has the screwed up characters for me, even selecting no color no ansi Later, Craig