Hi Jan, That -w command line enhancement I offered last Thursday has proved to be more useful than I could have imagined. I've been using it to test some old behavior regarding end-of-line handling. I made some discoveries which suggested a few additional changes to newtop. In some cases they affect code dating back to the original in 2002. Below is a tarball containing both incremental and replacement patches along with a revised git commit message. Regards, Jim