Here are 3 little routines (Infact very very little) but also very very usefull, and I think are the 3 most sorted routines that serious AMOS programmers have been crying out for. Let me excuse my self now for this short text, It probably wont make sense until youve read it at least 6 times or so...I hate typing in dox and things!!! ArghgH!GH!GH!GH OK, Briefly this is what they do.... DOSCALL.AMOS - This allows you to call any program without leaving AMOS, ie, DIR or LIST or LHARC or JR-COMM or ANYTHING!!!!!!!!!! It uses a small machine code routine that i wrote which is very simple but always very hard if ya dont know machine/c! REMOTE-SHELL - This is similar to DOSCALL except this returns the results from the command, ie, if you type DIR then you see your directory listing on the AMOS screen and it can be read in & things like that, Please note that this is not a 100% remote shell but its not bad, It uses the PIPE: device, so make sure you MOUNT PIPE: first else it wont work...See ya manual for more details...... WINDOW.AMOS - Ok, This lets you open windows on the standard workbench windows, it also allows you to type text in and for it to be transfered back to the AMOS program, so now if ya writing a utility, then EVERYTHING can be done on the normal W/B screen I do have stacks of other routines which ive written but an be bothered to gather them together, things like outputting text the the actual CLI window is easy to do and other such related things, or transfering text from 1 AMOS program to the other quickly and fastly, etc etc.... If you are stuck on any aspect of programming, Not just AMOS, then let me know and ill do what i can to help, no promises but as long as i dont have to sit down and code for 3493 weeks (Would i be dead then!!?) then ill help you out....You can contact me by mailing STEPHEN ARNOLD on either 071 For Amiga or Cheam Amiga, My name is actually Mark Arnold but use Stephen Arnold on the BBS systems of this world! Weird world as wel!!?!??! Ok, Thats it, Any all this work is (c)opyright 1991 M. R. Arnold and may be freely distributed as long as no profit is made from it... Anyone not having a modem who really needs help can mail me at: M. Arnold 6 Linceslade Grove Loughton Milton Keynes MK5 8DL And thats it...L8rz! Guys!!!! + Maybe the Odd girlie! Mark.! 17 December 1991 Merry Christamas + Happy New Year!