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Steve, actually the following diatribe belongs in Ramblings and I apologize in advance to posting it in a reply to you. Actually, this is addressed to our community at large. <stepping on soapbox> Hrmmmp. I have a real problem with the proliferation of custom libraries by varied individuals. The 'dissidents' are only a sign of the problem at large. Lately, looking at my libs: directory, I have become convinced that I will need a 20 MB harddisk just to support the explosion of library files that I have to have to run my favorite software. Currently, they occupy over 1050K, yes, over a megabyte. The situation will grow worse, if I really go whole hog and download all the lib files I need to have to run my current software. Frankly, I've gone on strike. With the exception of the kd_freq.library, I will not download another library until such time as we agree on a standard. I'm tired of seeing yet another file requester, yet another console handler, etc ad nausuem. Rexx has made the situation worse, if anything. Now I have to have 6 or 8 libraries from the 'dissadents' to run their code. The same applies to other programs. No more. Even with a 600 MB removable drive, I have the feeling that I could fill it with libraries within the next few years. It would be nice if we could get our act together and prevent schizophrenia on our systems. While we are about it, would someone shoot arp.library? <stepping off of soapbox> Brian J. Bartlett