Hi Nathan. Thanks for the link. I think there is a lot that we can glean from Kaptain. > BTW I have tried to get the CVS versions working on a few occasions and > always run into difficulty somewhere along the line... CVS versions haven't been working for a while. The broker has been extensively reworked by Jarl, and before we put it back into CVS (and call it 0.0.2), we're asking people on the list to test it out: http://bioinformatics.org/~jarl/piper-0.0.2-test1.tar.gz So far, I've got one compiling problem, which may be due to my version of GCC (C++ standards). Cheers. Jeff -- J.W. Bizzaro jeff at bioinformatics.org Director, Bioinformatics.org http://bioinformatics.org/~jeff "As we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours; and this we should do freely and generously." -- Benjamin Franklin --