> WTF is a compose key? look at an honest-to-God DEC VT dumbterm, and you'll see a 'compose' key on it. other dumbterms probably have them as well. As Mr. Goldman implies, it's used for composing foreign characters like the Spanish characters that have the ~ over them, and such like. Carl Soderstrom. -- Network Engineer Real-Time Enterprises www.real-time.com