note Abigail-II Before everyone starts modifying their programs, modifying all their print statements, I'd like to point old and trusty <tt>cat</tt>. Everyone knows <tt>cat</tt>. Not everyone knows its options. <tt>-E</tt> is very useful in this regard: it makes <tt>cat</tt> print a $ at the end of each line. Other useful <tt>cat</tt> options for debugging output: <tt>-T</tt> which displays tabs as <tt>^I</tt>, and <tt>-v</tt> which will show non-printable and non-ASCII characters using <tt>^</tt> and <tt>M-</tt> notation. With some versions of <tt>cat</tt>, <tt>cat -vET</tt> can also be written as <tt>cat -A</tt>. <p> <tt>cat</tt> is your friend. Never debug without it! <p> Abigail 348480 348480