RB> under 4DOS:

C:\>>calc 5 + 4
 RB> 9

C:\>>

 RB> Under 4NT:

C:\>>calc 5 + 4
 RB> 0 5 + 4

this is exactly what i was getting when i was trying to manually alter the
alias... it went away when i got it in the alias.ini file and loaded it
from there...

C:\>>

 RB> Funny, isn't it?

 ml>> and i have to load the alias' with the following command

 ml>> alias /r \alias.ini

 RB> That's the same I do.

 RB> The other alias in the first line under 4DOS does the
 RB> following:

C:\>>calc 5 + 4

C:\>>CALC 9

 RB> That means, at once I can go on with further operations,
 RB> without typing in the first part of the calculation again.

oh! like a calculator stack...

 RB> The same thing under 4NT:

C:\>>calc 5 + 4

C:\>>

 RB> As you can see, there is nothing. But I'm sure, "5 + 4" is
 RB> more than nothing. :-)

true... drop the %{at}comma stuff and see if it fixes it...

)\/(ark