In a message dated 97-07-30 12:36:18 EDT, you write: << No No No! What I am saying is that you edit the ash backup by putting the oshell machine code inplace of the ash code. that way when it was supposed to run ash it will run oshell instead, so we have an oshell that does not mess up the vaiable Q! ~Richard >> well, it would be easier to just edit the oshell backup :-) ~Adamman