I can see that this would be very useful for some folks. http://dots.physics.orst.edu/csun94.html http://www.news.cornell.edu/Chronicle/96/2.1.96/aster.html http://www.cs.cornell.edu/Info/People/raman/raman.html AsTeR is not GPL, but perhaps should be. Someone interested enough and motivated enough should try and get this into Debian, and perhaps into Gnome / KDE ?? -- Karl M. Hegbloom <hegbloom@pdx.edu>