KC Eric, I remember encountering a similar message when trying 'hilite dtl' on an HFS HTML file that had records that were longer than 255 characters. However, as you mention COBOL I doubt that that's the reason.
Anyway, did you press F1 (or enter 'help') upon the first message being displayed? Maybe there will be another message telling you in more detail what's wrong. Robert > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > von KC Eric Wong > Gesendet: Dienstag, 20. März 2007 08:27 > > Hi all, > > I am new to ISPF Editor. > > When I am editing a COBOL file,I found that syntax highlighting is OFF, > > When I type HILITE ON in the command line, it says "HILITE unavailable", > > Seems that it is disabled somehow. > > Does anyone meet this problem? > How can I enable it again? > > Thanks! > > KC Eric ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html