titus I sympathise with you concerning the changes in output format. I encourage you to keep going as it is very cool when you track down an apparent problem to an error in NIH's sequence file (or other supplier). The folk at the National Library of Medicine used to be very happy that other people were debugging their files by parsing them rigorously. I haven't done this in a few years so I am guessing that such source errors are rarer now but it feels good to be the one to spot them.

Thanks to Sun I now have the free (gratis) Solaris 10 DVD set. After sending my request in January I had given up hope as the intermediary who was mailing them emailed me to tell me that I hadn't filled out an application (so how did they get my contact information?). I've dabbled with Solaris 7 and 8 in the past, both x86 and SPARC, but the inclusion of Sun Studio on the latest set was what had sparked my interest. Hmmm... I have no idea if I can add an ATAPI DVD-ROM to my Ultra 5. Otherwise I'll try it out on a spare x86 box.