>Yes, I understand the constraint. how much space do I have? Hard to say. Maybe 30k at most? BTW, another place to maybe look is "tom's boot disk". he is rather insane and I think tends to implement lots of stuff as awk scripts, which might be nice -- well... wait... I can't remember if awk is on the rescue image. .....Adam Di Carlo....adam@onShore.com.....<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>