1) FOTD date format: This is somewhat ambiguous at the moment, although it appears to be Short European (dd-mm-yy), which is probably a better choice than (Short) American even if only because it's more widely used. Remember that there are at least six numeric date formats; Short European, Short American (mm-dd-yy), Short Japanese (yy-mm-dd), and the Long versions (yyyy instead of yy; Long Japanese is more usually known as ISO-8601 or International). Of these, International is the only one that's completely unambiguous to everyone, hence the name. 2) Will people please not send large files, even off-list, as happened to me as a result of my problems with DOS Fractint 20; at my current account level, this account has quotas of only 16Mb storage and 40Mb/monthly bandwidth (which I think includes incoming BW), which are normally ample for me, but won't be if several people decide to send me large files (fortunately, it was only the one). Unsolicited large attachments (only 0.6Mb larger and it would have been bounced by my filters) are considered rude by many; kindly send a *link* to the file instead, and if I want it, I can then get it myself. Sorry about that; we now return you to your scheduled list. :-)