JM>    The LISP is appreciated. But all I really got from it was 
  JM> the  diagnostic 'Extra Right Paren'.  
  
 > Very strange! After reveiving your reply I exportet the Lisp from 
 > my mail and colud load it into ACAD without any problems.
  
   Oops, I tried it again and it looks like I had tried to load using 
 apostrophes (') rather than quotes ("). 
  
 > Heres another quick hack. The first one will switch to paperspace 
 > and let you zoom the drawing. Because the first one will only zoom 
 > windows you need another one to zoom out the the extents of the 
 > drawing.
 > 
 >...(defun C:ZV ( / _flag )
 >
 > Anyway, I hope the two samples above show how tilemode, mpsace, 
 > pspace and zoom can be handled from lisp.
  
   Sorry for the delay on response; been snowed under and there is 
 really no relief in sight. I briefly checked the ZV and ZE lisps, 
 but really only got a nil returned. I will look at the code when I 
 have the opportunity. I do have a good book on AutoLisp, and will 
 get back to studying it when I can. Not only do I want routines for 
 zoom_view and zoom_draw, but I also want to see if I can make some 
 decent line trimming routines to trim a line to a length, trim an 
 incremental amount, or trim to an unbounded intersection. I wonder 
 how ACAD could have missed these functions also. Thanks for the 
 code, and encouragement...
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