thank you very much for your reply. I actually tried what you are saying after I posted the message, but it still is not working right :( this is what I have: ___________________________________________ #!/bin/sh (I have also tries using bash) mail e48f4@unb.ca (embeded CR) echo Subject: Fill out time sheet (embeded CR) echo Dont forget to fill out (embeded CR) (embeded ctrl D) -------------- It works if I type line by line at the prompt, but I can't get it to work in the script. I dont get an error, but it does nnot finisth, and I have to control C to exit. thanks again for your input. Peter PS. I use vi ( i telnet to a unix box)

If you have access to use joe (editor) this becomes easy to do. try typing joe at your command line see if it opens up. If so, all you need to do to use ctrl chars is use ` then the letter you want so you would type `d and that should do it. The VI solution posted before should work, but eh, I dont like vi that much, thats why I use joe :)