On 8/30/2006 at 12:44 PM Roy J. Tellason wrote: >Some of the CP/M tools used $ as a string terminator, if I'm remembering >right... Actually, it's BDOS call 9--preserved to this day in MS-DOS/Windoze. I've no idea why a printable character was selected as a terminator. Anyone have any idea of its origin? Cheers, Chuck