Andy Neil wrote:
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How does your PUTSTRING currently recognise the end of a string?
As you've explicitly put nulls at the ends of all your strings, I assumed that's what PUTSTRING was doing already?!

Andy,
you are quite correct.I think "sometimes you don't see the woods for the trees " applies here.I could only see each individual text line .I should remove the null terminator from each text line and put a single terminator at the end of teh text block.Duh!
Thank you again.Phil