Jerome Fine replies: Before I reply to your response, I believe it is more important to consider the other aspect in regard to what I stated in my post on Tuesday, January 14th, 2003 at about 10:00 P.M. my local time. The most important aspect that I felt needed to be addressed was the issue of all of the bug fixes being compatible all the way from V5.03 up to V5.07 of RT-11. Since that was the ONLY aspect that you commented upon last time, I suggest that it is important to first clear up that problem. Thus, IF you also agree: (a) That in order to be above reproach as far as Mentec is concerned, any changes which will be provided to the hobby users be ONLY for V5.03 of RT-11 until such time as Mentec allows at least V5.06 and preferably V5.07 for hobby use, and (b) Any changes which are introduced to V5.03 (I call them bug fixes) also be compatible all the way up to V5.07 of RT-11, and (c) All of the changes introduced to V5.03 also be capable of being added to V5.07 and made available to hobby users at a time when such is legally possible (actually, the changes can already be made available to hobby users, but V5.07 can't be as yet). Then I believe that the changes to V5.03 can be proceeded with and no problems should occur. At that point, how the changes are coded can be discussed. Sincerely yours, Jerome Fine -- If you attempted to send a reply and the original e-mail address has been discontinued due a high volume of junk e-mail, then the semi-permanent e-mail address can be obtained by replacing the four characters preceding the 'at' with the four digits of the current year.