From: Gary S Moss ~Software Development Team~ <moss at BRL-VLD.ARPA> Rich -- As Mike said, 'sprintf()' and 'atof()' are available, or more general than 'atof()' is 'fscanf()' and 'sscanf()', that is unless you don't want to load in the 'printf()' library. Read section 3 of your UNIX User's Manual. -- Moss.