LID

You can use any editors outside of LID. You can even use the simple NOTEPAD but the real problem is a lot of this editors have no syntax checking. I use the AS400 to create my cobol source because of it's syntax checking capabilities. I don't know if there are robust editors that you can download for free.

Lynne, Try changing the font size - that helps a lot. Karen

Welcome to the world of Lawson! I use LID as little as I possibly can, and I never use it for editing code. I typically use PSPad Freeware Editor (http://www.pspad.com/en/) which has COBOL syntax highlighting and other nice features. We use WinSQL as our SFTP client, and it can be configured to edit documents with external editors.  I set up my WinSQL so when I double-click to edit a file on the server, it opens in PSPad for editing and it saves back to the server location. FYI - I use PuTTY for almost everything else at the command-line.  Really anything except tasks that spawn a new window (like pgmdef, jobsched, etc). Good luck in your Lawson adventures... Kelly