Hi Ulf, on the 'wanted' list for 1.3 is also "Moving the fileformat to xdr" ... this will solve the portability problem ... cheers tobi -- Tobi Oetiker, OETIKER+PARTNER AG, Aarweg 15 CH-4600 Olten http://it.oetiker.ch tobi at oetiker.ch ++41 62 213 9902