There you go again ;-) Although you may be older than I, I think it unlikely that you know my age. And for what it's worth, I've been known to repair Macs now and again and have programmed, as an amateur and mostly my own amusement, in Basic, Pascal, C, C++, Objective C, bash, Perl and Applescript. Norm --- Norman A. Cohen nacohen at mac.com "The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on." Joseph Heller On Feb 18, 2006, at 14:33 PM, J wrote: > I said I was speculating rather than asserting as part of the > exploratory process, so there's no need to accuse me of > backpeddling. I am willing to throw out any previous ideas that we > figure out are wrong, with no qualms... > > I am just trying to analyze what was said on that link. > > And, for what it's worth, I'm older than you are and have been > using Macs about the same time, fixing the hardware, and writing > code as well... and still do even in my old age. :-) >