When I type a long line in the bash shell it seems to get confused when it passes the first 80 character barrier and does a newline. Below is an example. C09-272-A:# why is it in bash that when I get close to typing 80 characters bash does som ething like this? Now set my prompt to the hostname as "\[\e]0;\w\a\e[01;33mC09-272-A:\e[0m". Could this be causing the problem? -- I don't suffer from insanity. I enjoy every minute of it. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/