Thanks for the patches. I'd already fixed up the big_tmp ones, I'd missed the unlink_dbm problem. I'll make sure they go into verion 2.0 -- -- Lee McLoughlin. Phone: +44 171 594 8388 Dept of Computing, Imperial College, Fax: +44 171 584 8301 180 Queens Gate, London, SW7 2BZ, UK. Email: L.McLoughlin@doc.ic.ac.uk