oops, I think I replied to the person instead of to the list... But I don't think endianness is the problem. My NetWinder (little-endian StrongARM) does this also.. And Alfredo Kojima couldn't explain what was happening. Cheers, Patrix. -- "No boom today. Boom tomorrow. There's always a boom tomorrow." -- Lt. Cmdr. Susan Ivanova, Babylon 5. "It's the Magic that counts." -- Larry Wall on Perl's apparent ugliness.