Tarjei Tj�stheim Jensen (tarjei@online.no) wrote: : If you don't like what is there, make your own. In order to get a decent result : one should probably read one of W. Rickard Stevens programming books. He uses C, : but there should be no problem translating to Ada. i For reference (as Mr. Stevens wrote a number of very useful books), that would refer to: "Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment" W.Richard Stevens My copy say: Addison-Wesley, 1992 Ninth printing, 1995 ISBN 0-201-56317-7 -- -- Jerry van Dijk | Leiden, Holland -- Team Ada | jdijk@acm.org -- see http://stad.dsl.nl/~jvandyk