Hi folks - I am triyng to set up a very simple startup file for IDL 7.0 in Windows. I know to set the environment variable, and IDL obviosuly sees my file and tries to exceute it... but parts of it work and others do not. I am at a loss! here is the code: DEVICE, RETAIN=2, TRUE_COLOR=24, DECOMPOSED=0 LOADCT, 0 !P.BACKGROUND=’FFFFFF’x !P.COLOR=’000000’x !P.FONT=-1 DEVICE, SET_CHARACTER_SIZE=[9,12] Window, XSIZE=400, YSIZE=400, /PIXMAP Plot, Findgen(11) WDelete, !D.Window here is the result upon startup: % Keyword TRUE_COLOR not allowed in call to: DEVICE % Execution halted at: $MAIN$ % Compiled module: LOADCT. % Compiled module: FILEPATH. % Compiled module: PATH_SEP. % LOADCT: Loading table B-W LINEAR % Variable is undefined: B. % Execution halted at: $MAIN$ % Variable is undefined: B. % Execution halted at: $MAIN$ .. any ideas what is going on, here? It's says like this I miss Unix.. thanks, Cyndy