Thank you Kurt. Ok, I'll take a look deeper at your link. Honestly I had thought it was simpler. First of all I find it difficult to exploit the informations provided in your link. I tried to use the line you wrote: PB$(1)=LEFT$(PB$(1),3) + LEFT$(D$,5) + RIGHT$(PB$,LEN(PB$)-9) Sadly it doesn't work, an error message is issued, this: ?FC Error I wonder why NEC chose that weird way for his laptop making its BASIC weak compared with its direct antagonists Tandy and Olivetti. Such a shame, really a hard life for guys that want to program on NEC. I had always believed that 8201A was technically more advanced both as software and as hardware compared Tandy and Olivetti, actually I was totally wrong.
Peppino
