>>>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?
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>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).

I taught myself on a TRS-80 and worked my way up to minis and mainframes. Never did take any significant course in school on programming. OJT (On the Job Training) worked best for me. Usually was just handed a manual and told "Here, make this work.".

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

The surest trademark of a true programmer! < bg >