Hate to correct myself but I meant ULONG_MAX of course. BTW: It should be 0xffffffffUL then... Thorsten > Duncan, > > although the 'enormous' patch didn't fix Mark's problem I still > have one question: Wouldn't it be better (read: more portable) > to use UINT_MAX from <limits.h> than 0xffffffffU ? -- Sent through Global Message Exchange - http://www.gmx.net