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Glenn, Agreed, it is up to the individual programmer to determine the techniques that are usable in their particular situation. But, without knowledge of as many of the techniques as possible, How can he/she make a decision as to which one is applicable. What I was looking for was a source for as many ideas as possible as to how one can tailor the environment one is running in, to optimize it. ( for speed, size, ease of maintenance, or whatever applies. ) The information I had in hand was not understood by myself well enough to take full advantage of it. I hoped that this forum would be a source of ideas that I could experiment with to see if they were useable in different projects I am involved in. ( and it has. ). My understanding of those techniques ( with your help ) has grown considerably, but I still have a few questions. For instance, on disk 4 extras/tricks/avail.c in the compile string at the head of the file an assignment of DEFINE _stdout=_echo is made. What is _echo ? Also if you get the chance to download small.arc, in small6.map there are two other bits of code pulled in that I dont know why they are there or where they come from. Any ideas. Thanks for all of the help Paul