Hi, here's a more-or-less minimal example that under specific circumstances the restrict block --although silenced-- produces an extra empty line in the output. This can be a problem when those things accumulate in a loop. The blank line occurs between "hello again" and "and another" with the latest snapshot here. <hansl> open denmark set verbose off print "hello" vecm 2 1 LRY LRM  --rc --silent print "hello again" restrict     b[1] = 0     b[2] = 1 end restrict --full --silent print "and another" </hansl> thanks sven