On Sun, 29 Jun 1997, PG Manney wrote: Play on words. Like the plural of 'Ox' is 'Oxen', plurals of many things involving computers that end in 'x' end in 'xen'. As VAXen, Unixen (for the many variations on the Unix OS such as Venix, Linux, BSD, Solaris, AIX, Xenix, and several others. You'll also see more than one box (as in CPU) referred to as 'boxen'. Check out _The New Hacker's Dictionary_, 2nd Edition, from MIT Press, also available in many forms on the Net as the "Jargon File". Currently (and for a long time now) maintained by Eric S. Raymond. Try <http://www2.dictionary.com/dictionary.jargon/>. (Actually, recommended to everybody who ever wonders what one of us old farts is talking about). -- Ward Griffiths "America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards." --Claire Wolfe