I do not understand the results of the following experiment, and would appreciate input. Using telnet on a Win PC, I executed this code: perl -e print "Hello world.\n\r"' > /dev/tty1 On my Linux system monitor (/dev/tty1), I see "Hello world." printed along with the newline and carriage return. What I don't understand is why I don't see a return of my Linux screen prompt until I hit the Enter key on that system. Should I be flushing some sort of buffer, closing a file, or transmitting some other code sequence to indicate an end to my output? TIA JohnThread Next