>Hi,
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>I am developing a toolbar to navigate in a ascii document which is shown via MODI COMM and am looking for ways to get info about the document and navigate around it.
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>How do you get a referece to the document? How many rows does it show? Which is the topmost visible row? In which row is the cursor? I presume to navigate one would issue KEYBOARD commands.

You may look into Range clause of the Modify Command command. Though, it only helps you select a bit of text at the time you open the text - pretty much behaves as a selstart and selstart+sellength.