This is related to TI-82 programming (creating worlds for games). Rats! I can't find my C programmer's manual. Can somebody tell me how to get non-ascii characters into a string (i.e. using \x##)? char Ditty = "ABCDEFGHI \x## "; TIA Thomas J. Hruska -- thruska@tir.com Shining Light Productions -- "Meeting the needs of fellow programmers" http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Heights/8504 http://shinelight.home.ml.org