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Ed, >> anyone that can cram 28 hours into one day has my upmost respect Yes, it was difficult but luckily with the latest advances in time travel I was able to achieve it. >> Shoot, by my calculations (on a Pentium – hehe, it's a joke) you were >> only 10 minutes farther away between the MAC and the Amiga for a null <G> The sneakernet only involved about 20 diskettes so it wasn't worth lugging the 3000T around to set up a network. Luckily I invested in a HD drive so I was able to at least use 1.44 Meg disks. >> Somehow, I don't think there is enough of a market to support an I >> course, which is unfortunate… What! I'm sure there are "virtually" millions of IM users out there who would be willing to spend big bucks and take a course! In fact, I think I'll start a school based on it and I will have students from all over. >> I'm not following you on your statements about flexibility and >> using built-in support or develop your own." It was in regards to our earlier discussion about the Amiga's flexibility: you had a choice of how to do something without having to resort to compiling C source code. This is a GOOD thing. That choice may not have been as easy on Macs or PCs (where there isn't a commonly used interprocess communcation macro language such as ARexx). My story is similar to yours regarding Director2. I purchased it just before Doyle officially dropped out. I never used it to develop MM but I built (most of) a batch image scaling utility and some libraries to create automatic script based buttons. I stopped working with it when the AGA incompatibilities where made public. Now it sits on my bookshelf gathering dust. Dir2 had support for laserdisc in the same manner that you solved your problem: it had a serial port module which you could use to send messages to the port. >> I can certainly relate to wanting tech support solutions when under a >> line, however, I rather enjoy problem solving. It's fun to workout problems but sometimes there isn't time to have fun. >> people like to pay for ingenuity I disagree: people want ingenuity but usually don't want to pay for it. >> Being the pig I am, I matter-of-factly asked him what software he was >> using that could do this and things went down hill pretty rapidly… Did he tell you what he was using? I know that my 486SX laptop will not do all that although it can do some things pretty well (and it has 256 colours instead of my Amiga's 16). >> Of course I had to go in and "fix" those minor nits…This time I >> heard the kiosk had to be "rebooted" after the second day — oopppssss. Yikes. One of the things that was drummed into me when I worked on my project is that if the client has approved it, don't do anything else. ie. if it ain't broke, don't fix it. It's a hard habit to break, however. >> I don't buy your "industry standard" line Well, there are no "industry standards" per se but there are standards that are more standard than other standards. ie, Director is an emerging standard for cross-platform development, just as PCs tend to be a "standard" for corporate based presentations (Yuck). IMHO. >> Other than these nibbles, I'm basically unemployed. It's hard being on the leading edge, huh? <BG> Same goes for me. BTW, whereabout are you located? Have you done CBT before?