*> Just remember to avoid hitting Ctrl-C, generally speaking. It has the nasty* *> habit of breaking you completely out of sqlplus.* ** If you want to retain the DOS window when you intentionally hit control-c, you can set your sqlplus shortcut target to "C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /k sqlplus" I agree the character based sqlplus is much better than the GUI was. ** Steve Harville http://www.linkedin.com/in/steveharville