too chatty? Aside from adding a mess of verbiage about the intended topic, I parenthesized the reference to awk like the historical note it is, and in the bit complaining about the semicolon providing an insufficiently robust line noise variable I changed "I" to "Larry." David Nicol . -- David Nicol, independent consultant and contractor "it seems to follow from the court's view in the section 112 cases that programmers are an extremely skilled bunch needing little or no guidance from the prior art in order to implement a new idea in software." -- FroomkinThread Previous | Thread Next