> I'll try to stay off the soap box now as I also find the > quasi-religeous insistance painful, No hurt or pain intended... that's from Richard Stallman--he who wrote Emacs--not me. "I am also a saint, in the Church of Emacs--Saint IGNUcius. The Church of Emacs will soon be officially listed by at least one person as his religion for census purposes." More here: http://www.stallman.org/ > but as I said, this one I do believe in, > and see all the relevant facts support it. I agree and note that it supports a LOT more as well. :( ---- In the meanwhile I tried to swap an its Yahoo! download for the ASCII file read in the neat Bollinger Bars charting package we collaborated on, but am having problems. (This is why I was looking for a cool R editor and debugger.) Is there an obvious reason an its object and the ASCII object--they do look exactly alike--should be incompatible? --jab