>command + period? I thought that didn't work, but that was because I couldn't get one in between two "answer" dialogs. In the end that did it, though. So you can not break out of an answer dialog, it seems. -- Victor Eijkhout <eijkhout at cs.utk.edu> tel: 865 974 9308 (W), 865 673 6998 (H), 865 974 8296 (F) http://www.cs.utk.edu/~eijkhout/