At 9:01 PM -0500 5/9/01, Robert Bruce Findler wrote: >The one danger of that is that the "newline" in that string will be >platform independent. If that is in a file loaded with `load', it >will be the ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ That should have read "dependent". Sorry for any confusion. >platform-specific newline (eg, CRLF sometimes, etc, etc) since >`load' opens files in binary mode. Robby