Janis Kenderdine - when I came across this entry in an old spiral notebook, I'm thinking about what you said teaching that ANSI/IEEE subject. I was going to design the ULTIMATE BBS where any informaton would be easily retrievable. but the web took over, which isn't a bad thing really - I mean - here we are! But it rendered a lot of my original thinking kinda redundant. But it shows I was on the right track - obviously I'm not the only one that wanted this! :) "