Jan-Pieter Cornet writes: You might want to try the following program (I've just been hacking this up, and it costed me considerable more time than adding the gerund I/O things. But that's the power of intercal...) This program will ask for a number and might print it then, except that it doesn't ask the first time but _ assumes ONE TWO THREE. Oh and it never prints but just exits in case that would've been printed (I did my best to make that part as unreadable as possible. did it work? :)