> I used to ask college grads to write a function in C to convert a > null-terminated string representing an octal number into an int. And what did you do with the people who wrote (int)strtol(s,0,8)? :) /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mouse at rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B