Rest In Peace, Ludwig Van Beethoven is correct. The programmer had finally figured out the original coder's intent, and found it had nothing to do with the program at all. The original coder seems to have been amused by seeing the composer's year of death at that address and added the comment. The point of the yarn was to be careful in relying on the comments. I've gone through source code where I had a historical trail of changes, and found that some programmers change the code but don't update the comments. They should be shot for this behavoir, but then there might not be enough programmers to go around... ...if only... -dq