Don't know why NT doesn't do the same thing but in the case if Win9x, and everything which went before it, the reason is that when a character is printed the cursor moves to the next character position, which inthis particular example means the first character of the next line, which of course forces a scroll. Come to think of it, the same problem existed on everything else I used prior to using PCs. Perhaps NT is different because it's not built on DOS but merely emulates it.