Marsha Roepe wrote: ... snip ... > And am I the >only one who remembers programming 99 or 9999 or 999999 as a special trigger >to indicate the eof? If any of my old coding is floating around still in >AT&T, oh well, party like it's ... ; ) No, I have seen predictions of mini-armageddons on Sept 9 this year for precisely that reason. Ben Brosgol Aonix [log in to unmask]