That "int nextch" is interesting. That implies that on a 68000 machine, the convention of getc reading into an int, so you can test for -1 while still allowing a 0-255 range of chars, will break. Am I misinterpreting things, or will this screw up a large percentage of stdio programs? Dave Sherman -- {allegra,cornell,decvax,ihnp4,linus,utzoo}!utcsrgv!dave