Eric> Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com>: >> It was the masses that followed (probably influenced by some >> expatriate VMS programmers) who got carried away with adding >> thirty-leven options to every little filter. <wink><wink> Eric> No, it wasn't the masses. It was the FSF. I'm willing to go along with that idea as well. ;-) the-FSF-never-met-a-megabyte-it-didn't-like-ly, y'rs, Skip