Syntax errors which cause ccom to core dump, huh? The nice thing about such bugs is that they are easy to isolate and submit as a tidy little test case. Please phone it into the Customer Support Hotline so we can fix it. ~ mjf at sgi.com Michael Fong ~ ~ ____ ~ ~ /_|__\--, ~ ~ "my books, my beautiful books" []Oo. `0-----0' ~