>>well, i hope that there are some people out there which did not know this <bg>. so i was able to help them, plus i don't feel too alone. :-)
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>I'm sure that there will be people out there that this will be new to, don't worry about that. < g > Do they even teach this stuff in school anymore?


i wouldn't know; i've never learned programming in school. i tought myself starting in 1990 with good old fox 2.0. at the time i was working as a graphics designer in the military. we had over 5000 teacher slides. i started to computerize that department with 2 ibm's P2 (i think araund 330 MhZ).

my problem was: I was too lazy to manualy catalouge all of them - so i wrote my first program, a catalouge app which read the files from a disk, catagorized them base on the filename (i coded it); worked like charm. took me a while to finish though, but was a lot easyer the doing it all manually.

so you see - beeing lazy has it's advantages <g>


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>>maybe i'll ask you next time directly - nee, then i'll loose the feeling of success <s>
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>It's always a good feeling with something finally "clicks".
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>>>Sure is old hat to me. I had to do a bunch of bit-twiddling in a previous life. ;) Had to write a keyboard driver for a Z-80 system with NO ram. Only had the 208 bits of writable memory in the registers to work with and a 2K ROM for the code.