Hi, Augh....any idea how it fares on, say, Sun or SGI machines? I remember it well, it was the first *nix I had any "long-term" exposure to back around '88 (I'd dabbled with Ultrix at university). I see they're up to "Minix 3" now! LOL, I knew there was a reason I didn't do very with it at the time.... You'll get no argument from me there, I learnt "C" in 1983 and hate it with a passion even to this day; I'm an assembly language programmer by trade (hence I'm currently out of a job) but I learnt quite a number of high level languages at school/university/because I wanted to and "C" was the only one I disliked....the way I look at it, it's little more than a "high level macro assembler" and really isn't suited to the majority of uses it's put to nowadays (writing embedded apps and device drivers in "C", sheer madness!). TTFN - Pete.