Per Francisco's request, almost all the systems are set to have an alternate break sequence of <cr>~^b (carriage return, tilde, control-b) More specifically, on the consrv2 (since this is a PC keyboard), you will type: ^Ecl2 (that's 'L' not one--control-e c l 2). 2-3 of the systems are running Solaris 7 and the keyboard alternate abort sequence is not available. polaris is running Solaris 2.6 which also is incapable. One of the systems is a SGI. Judy Lin NACS-DCS