Dan -- You can also look at section 1.4.1' of
http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/fasc1.ps.gz for another view of subroutine linkage from the upcoming TAOCP. Regards, -- Gregor _____________________________________________________________________ / perl -e 'srand(-2091643526); print chr rand 90 for (0..4)' \ Gregor N. Purdy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Focus Research, Inc. http://www.focusresearch.com/ 8080 Beckett Center Drive #203 513-860-3570 vox West Chester, OH 45069 513-860-3579 fax \_____________________________________________________________________/