Dear Ian, Recently I downloaded the snippets collection and discovered the mem package. I had to solve a few problems to get it working but then it worked fine. On the internet I discovered that you also found and solved a few bugs. Maybe you're also interested in the bugs (and solutions) I found: unfortunately I could not found a recent snippet collection than from 1997, otherwise I would have sent it there. Kind regards, Martin August 2000 Fixed code for use with DJGPP compiler. Most importantly there was a bug in the mem_term() function that could cause infinite loops when DJGPP compiler is used. -Martin Pols ====================================================================== Martin Pols - montoya@dds.nl - The Netherlands ======================================================================