> btw what's this story about the new BMessage format ? > what does it change besides the magic number ?? Everything changed I guess. They broke compatibility to be able to make a faster implementation and they did. It is a lot more difficult to lose messages in Dano than it is in R5. -Bruno -- Fortune Cookie Says: 'Tis the dream of each programmer, Before his life is done, To write three lines of APL, And make the damn things run.