> Excellent. However, you might be interested to know that doubts about the > very long-term stability of data media and of accessibility to means to > read them recently caused the UK parliament to reaffirm its practice of > printing a copy of all its statutes on vellum! Imagine the Doomsday Book > had been written only on 1/2 " tape! Vellum is parchment, right? OPEN (FORM="PARCHMENT", ACCESS="SEQUENTIAL", STATUS="PERMANENT", & ACTION="ARCHIVE IN THE BRITISH LIBRARY", UNIT=42, & FILE="FORTRAN FORUM", BLANK="NULL") %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%