A hearty hurrah to this thread. No other program language violates fundamental math/logic constructs. The FB^3 routines must be retranslated to correct logic for this to be considered a viable competitor to the remaining languages on the Mac. For my purposes, FutureBASIC is no longer an appropriate platform to continue serious development on. I will still "play" with it, but will convert to Code Warrier for full cross platform compatibility. M Raycraft aka Wizard557