Stan, I think a little icc script would do the trick for you. I think the guys at FeedForward have some nice tools for remote administration. If not, then you could hook up the icc driver to an IP port with inetd, then use some Perl (or whatever) to send a few lines of icc driver commands to that port. Voila magically your CALC block steps come back. I messed around with this a while ago when the Calc Block Compiler was getting started. Or (duh), forget the networking and pump this to /opt/fox/ciocfg/api/iccdrvr.tsk OPEN MYAW51 READ getcalcs GET MYCOMPND:MYBLOCK CLOSE EXIT and your calc block steps come back. You have to change MYAW51, MYCOMPND, and MYBLOCK to the name of your AW, compound and block. You can also put multiple GET commands between the OPEN and CLOSE. >Is there a way I can print the contents (that is the steps) of a calc block >from the shell command line? Failing that is there a way to invoke the >control configurator itself from the shell, given that I have a working X >server on the other end of the ssh session? Winston Jenks Technical Director, Cape Software, Inc. _______________________________________________________________________ This mailing list is neither sponsored nor endorsed by Invensys Process Systems (formerly The Foxboro Company). Use the info you obtain here at your own risks. Read http://www.thecassandraproject.org/disclaimer.html foxboro mailing list: //www.freelists.org/list/foxboro to subscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=join to unsubscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=leave