Carissa, I mistakenly said that pqing(1) will delete *all* ESC characters in the body of a WMO bulletin. Further investigation reveals that an ESC character will only be deleted if it follows the character sequence CR CR LF (which introduces a report). I still don't know why. Regards, Steve Emmerson Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: OWC-960244 Department: Support LDM Priority: Normal Status: Open