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Ken, >>Why are you moving to MetaWare? What is the critical issue? The critical issue is that you cannot use the Watcom Video Debugger from 9.5. And with regards to 10, even though the debugger is significantly different, you can't use it either. The issue is, that a trap file has to provided or written for the environment inwhich the debugger will operate. There are many trap files available for many environments, even Autodesk ADI development. But none for IPAS. Since IPASs have their own code segment and data segment, and acts as a client to the 3DS program, special trap files need to be written to debug in this environment. Watcom support tells us that it may be that more than one trap file will be needed, they don't see that one would fit all the situations that the different types of IPASs would require. Autodesk was very responsive regarding our request, but the fact is that debugging is not currently an option with Watcom for IPAS development. So, why Metaware? During our research on the above it came to our attention that the vast majority of serious IPAS development was Metaware based. I hesitate to speak for others, but in the form of hearsay, let me say: It appears that Yost is primarily Metaware, Pyros I'm told is Metaware, I know David at Digimation is Metaware….its' a well know truth that the product that gets used the most gets supported the most. So, we switched. We may see traps for Watcom someday, but not before SIGGRAPH 94… BTW Check out our new IPAS offering, see IPAS Usage, and IPAS Usage Library for info about Exponential Key Generator KXP… Hope this was helpful… Steve Stephen D. Pidgeon Pulse Productions Tampa, FL 813–977-8414 70732,2546 pidgeon@gate.net