The proper fix to this is to upgrade to 2.10.2, recently posted to net.sources. There are a large number of fixes in the release including a decent fix for the 8192 overflow. chuq -- >From the Department of Bistromatics: Chuq Von Rospach {amd,decwrl,fortune,hplabs,ihnp4}!nsc!chuqui nsc!chuqui at decwrl.ARPA How about 'reason for living?'