All, an humble suggestion: 1) Use cheap pine with a nice stain to make some "temporary" panels 2) plant a rosewood tree 3) maintain the machine for ~100 years 4) cut down your rosewood tree, make "real" panels out of it, and sell the excess rosewood to pay for electricity to run the machine. 5) meantime and most important, get back to classic-computer discussions on this list PS: Philip H., you are absolutely positively the man! I thought nothing could change the currently sagging signal/noise ratio on the list and my heart sank when I saw the 87k archive ... but then! / SPACE WAR / / INTERPLANETARY DEATH AND DESTRUCTION ON YOUR / LAB-8/E .... Now *that* is the kind of post we need more of! Right on! -- - Mark 210-379-4635 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Large Asteroids headed toward planets inhabited by beings that don't have technology adequate to stop them: Think of it as Evolution in Fast-Forward.