>>>>> "FL" == Fredrik Lundh <effbot@telia.com> writes: FL> the rest looks a bit scary, to say the least. does someone FL> (sre?) overwrite something? does anyone have purify (dmalloc, FL> fences, whatever) within reach? I will very soon. I found a Solaris box on which I could load up an eval copy of Purify. Will report back soon. -Barry