Well, thank you much Paul! I modified the links to increase/decrease by 25% rather than 50%, but i'm amazed by how easy this is - and curious as to why MS doesn't provide access to it by default. :suss: Shog9 ------ Rather hammer futiley at the locked door than just sit and ignore it. Obviously finding a way to get through the locked door would be even better though. - Paul Watson, My Ignorance

Funnily enough that's the first thing I thought when I clicked on the post, but I thought I'd avoid appearing easily taken and keep schtum ;P. What I'm not gonna admit is that I then went across to an article, and found another post with a <pre> in just to see whether you'd made it standard across the site or if it was the poster who'd done it :-D. BTW the scrolly things in code listings in articles didn't go amiss - nice idea, I'd no idea it was even possible. Mucho HTML catch-up research needed soon methinks. Ok, off to bed, it's 0227 here and WAY too late for 'us youngens' (as you over 30's would say ;P), like my grand self, to be hangin' round in the Salloon (sic?) :). -- Andrew.

I use Verizon DSL in west texas. The service is quite good. Its never down and the speed is constant. Much better than the crappy cable modem service in this area. __________________________ do { cout << "I will never use = when I mean == " << endl; } while (i = 1)

If it works, it works! ---- Xian

I looked around on the web and found only one free ASP.NET provider - brinkster.com - but they do not offer ftp access so I have to upload each file through their web admin interface... Not really convinient for a large project. Anybody know of some other free ASP.NET provider? "A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one." - Senator Palpatine

I've done some HC11 work using the "BotBoard", which you program over a serial port. It's a low-tech solution, but you get to use assembly language on an old 8-bit architecture. Can be painful. The BotBoard has support for 4 servos, though I've only ever used mine for holiday lighting (sequencing and dimming). Great processor support for that sort of thing, as it's easy to generate precise timing without a lot of work. Nuts and Volts magazine is good with this sort of thing (http://www.nutsvolts.com). Another choice for robotics is Lego Mindstorms. There's a full OS that runs on the controller block (http://www.noga.de/legOS/). If you want to learn more, "Extreme Mindstorms" from Apress is a decent introduction.