Mats, I could not agree more with you, Chuck and Dick. There is a VAST market waiting to be driven from ArcSpew to MapInfo if it incorporated these basic tools to enhance the topographical issues that ArcInfo addresses for ESRI. Our major client base uniformly uses AutoCad. At some point in time, (very near future with the seminars being offered at http://www.geonetcom.com/), AutoDesk is going to aggressively market to this HUGE base. Why would anyone spend this kind of $$ for a basically one trick pony when you can get a full stable of performance with Manifold? http://www.manifold.net/intro/faster_smarter_home.html John D. Haynes Geodata Consultants 1-800-838-6661 www.geodataconsult.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]