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Hi, Napster doesn't allow the distribution of files which aren't mp3's. They apparently check the internal format and balk otherwise. There is a program called wrapster which will take ANY file, and make it into an mp3 good enough to fool napster. That being said, it looks like napster is going to either go away, or be forced into a much more active stance on copyright protection. There are alternate decentralized sharing program which are not concerned with file types, such as gnutella (www.gnutty.co.uk?) for example. The major disadvantage of such a scheme is the danger of 'losing' a large portion of the database because not enough people are archiving it. A better solution is to hang four 40Gb IDE drives off a PC running *nix, and serve them up with HTTP or FTP (or NFS if you want to live dangerously). This is my plan for the DEC fiche (and other documentation) I am planning to scan. A simple web page on uswest.net with links to the actual files on my home machine through DSL. I haven't yet decided on an access control system, probably something simple like username: classiccmp, password: DECrulez! <grin> Depending on storage and bandwidth requirements, I would volunteer to mirror some or all of the magazine database as well. clint PS Cirrus stock closed at 27 1/2 so I'm buying a fiche scanner!!! On Sun, 13 Aug 2000, Brian Mahoney wrote: <sNipster> <\sNipster>