In fairness to Jan Michael Rynning and Johnny Eriksson, I'd like to do a quick nitpick. Their 8-bit text to 7-bit text encoding proposal calls the encoding "TEXT-HEX", not "TEX-HEX" as many have been wont to call it. David -- David Paul Zimmerman dpz@dimacs.rutgers.edu Systems Programmer rutgers!dpz Rutgers Univ Center for Discrete Math and Theoretical Computer Science (DIMACS)