i need to ask a few questions about debugging C executables on *BSD. can a reasonably competant C programmer who uses mainly *BSD contact me offlist? thanks, pete -- Make everything as simple as possible, but no simpler. -- Albert Einstein GPG Instructions: http://www.dirac.org/linux/gpg GPG Fingerprint: B9F1 6CF3 47C4 7CD8 D33E 70A9 A3B9 1945 67EA 951D