I use cu alot with the OBM to talk to my neighborhood VAX, and somewhere along the line I'm losing the 8th bit (probably to parity), so META doesent work :-(. Does anyone know how to get cu to talk 8bits No parity? -- :alex Alex Crain Systems Programmer alex at umbc3.umd.edu Univ Md Baltimore County nerwin!alex at umbc3.umd.edu