5.0 is not installed here yet, but I have been following all the interesting posix messages. What I get from the traffic is that things are a little more complicated in the land of posix then the land of mpe. This is to be expected since we are all more familiar with mpe than posix(unix) so I am not daunted by the comments. However, I am confused about some things and was wondering if someone could elaborate on the following: 1. can I run a standard mpe nm program that I built using standard mpe compilers (cobol,pascal,etc) when I am under the posix shell? IOW, can I use the standard mpe cobol to create cgi programs that are called by the ncsa http server which I assume is running under posix. 2. is 'c' the only language that 'plays' in the posix world? I guess what I don't fully appreciate or understand is how the posix/mpe worlds coexist or interact together when it comes to running existing programs or building new ones for the land of posix. Thanks! -- Duane Percox (Quintessential School Systems) [log in to unmask] | www: www.aimnet.com/~qssnet/ | ftp: ftp.aimnet.com/pub/users/qssnet/