>I'm not convinced they needed to wed it so tightly with Unix System Services, but I bet they are not about to undo that with another rewrite.
I think they had no real choice. The original spec was written for UNIX, so they wrote it to call UNIX system functions. - -teD I’m an enthusiastic proselytiser of the universal panacea I believe in! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html