Don't like the names I chose? Suggest a better one. Familiarity with the existing names isn't a justification for the existing names. "showorbit" doesn't reflect how that variable was being used as it suggests a boolean flag. "kbdcount" is unnecessarily abbreviated and doesn't reflect how it was being used either. Equating all input with the keyboard is a DOS concept that is antiquated. In fact, the whole business of polling for input in the middle of compute loops, which is where this variable was being used, is also going away. Its time to evolve or die. Fractint hasn't evolved. Fractint is close to dying. Look at that huge list of contributors on the intro screen. How many of those people are contributing now? 2, besides me. How many new people have contributed since 1999, besides me? Few to none. Its time to evolve or die. Its time to embrace change. -- "The Direct3D Graphics Pipeline" -- DirectX 9 draft available for download <http://www.xmission.com/~legalize/book/download/index.html> Legalize Adulthood! <http://blogs.xmission.com/legalize/>