[You can pic your nose, but you can't pic your bugs.] 1. The bug I published is mentioned in the PIC manual. It has a cure: put "space 0" at the start of the EQN code. 2. The fix I proposed works fine. But for superscripts you will still need 'space 0'. -- Col. G. L. Sicherman ...seismo!rochester!rocksanne!rocksvax!sunybcs!gloria!colonel