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Dear AutoCAD community, The company bough me a modem + a portable so I can be on line everywhere now. Just some things I did in the past y'all might be interested in: Did you know of the ADGE group? stands for the AutoCAD Developers Group Europe and this is a VERY interesting group. They are all the big developers in Europe (Yes we do make software there!) and they come together twice a year in a seminar. Lasst time was in heidelburg in Germany. 120 people were there and it was great. What is interesting that the biggest competitors are workig together there to create standards! They have created the ADGE standard a discription of how AutoCAD applications have to behave so they can work inside the same autocad sessions. It consist of an ADGE.CFG file where every application has to register and tell what files he has changed, variables which are used, menu file etc etc. Also there are variable standards and you get can get a unigue application number so you can claim all kinds of layers, variables etc. They are a great bunch of people, very professional and a LOT further in integrating there work then we in the USA. I have a couple of pages which I can fax people. If lots of people want it I will type it in and send it to compusurve. Europe will for a lot of reason be STRONG, half the founders are there now, 40% of the markt, great developers, eastern Europe. I went to prague for a 3 days holiday (20 times cheaper then the usa and VERY charming). On the university of architecture at the CAD lab I found 20 copies of AutoCAD and AutoManager, went I asked for a manual there was a deep silence…. Automanager after AutoCAD is the most copied program in the former eastblock. Great honor! Anyway, got to get my plane. Everybody a GREAT turkey day, Greetings Vincent Everts Cyco International