Space or not a space after HLINE? Color is required. B for Box is optional. Bruce W. > Any idea why this is throwing a syntax error in LINE 20 WITH SECB on coco3 > > 10 HSCREEN 4 > 20 HLINE (10,10)-(20,20),,B > 30 GOTO 30 > > I also tried HLINE(10,10)-(20,20),1,B