>> Matt Ackeret writes ... >> > I just realized, ProTERM says "" on the status line, and will this >> > entire year. I just played with the year, and it works right for 99, and >> > for 01 (it only shows 2 digits for the year).. That is a bug - only 0/0/00 should display as while 1/1/00 should be fine. Given that the date is stored in two bytes: 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ | year | month | day | +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ I would hazard a guess and say that it is just testing the byte with the year in it for zero. Have you tried months 8..12 yet? That would set the bottom bit in the year byte. It should test both bytes and only report if both are zero. -- David Wilson School of IT & CS, Uni of Wollongong, Australia