Should *print-case* and *print-escape* interact? In says in the CLM is several places that when *print-escape* is NIL, a symbol is printed simply as the characters in its name. If I set *print-case* to :downcase because I like Unix and then do a (princ '|This is a program ported from MACLISP.|) should that print as: this is a program ported from maclisp. Rob