Mark Lundquist wrote: << This value of the Ada design has sometimes been mistakenly spoken of as "portability". From the implementor's point of view, there is an appearance of "portability" because it is easier to port the compiler to novel architectures. It's really the compiler that is made more "portable", not application code. >> Are you kidding or did I missed something ???? Pascal. --|----------------------------------------------------- --| Pascal Obry Team-Ada Member --| 45 rue Gabriel Peri - 78114 Magny les Hameaux FRANCE --|----------------------------------------------------- --| http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/pascal_obry --| --| "The best way to travel is by means of imagination"