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Brian, Well, you certainly have said a mouth full. However, I can't say that I disagree with the nub of your complaint. Unfortunately, it seems that we don't have just one library that provides the wealth of helpful and needed adjuncts to ARexx. RexxArpLib certainly does virtually all that rx_intui does, but the latter seems to do it more elegantly from the users perspective. Perhaps with the advent of most of these helpful items such as file requesters, list boxes, gadgets, etc. being provided in one library under 2.0 the need for library proliferation will be lessened. Of course with such an "open" system as the Amiga programmers seem to feel a need to make things that are peculiar to their individual brand of doing things. I don't think that's likely to stop any time soon! I haven 't really tallied up the disk space allocated for libraries on my system, but it's a lot judging from the count of files. I'd like to have it all in one or at least a few. But library makers don't all seem to want to provide what may be needed by all library users, so one needs different libraries often for the same job, but because one does what another doesn't. I personally want libraries with .bmap files and that are written so they may be used in Basic programs. That's a peculiar need of mine, tho not of most others. Because I'm not a power programmer, I need libraries that are easy to use and integrate into my programming with Basic or ARexx. So, is there a reasonable solution?