I had written (on the subject of internal procedures of module procedures) > > 2. At least old versions of the NAG compiler used to have problems > > with this. On checking my old records, I find that the problems I was recalling were only in a beta copy (from about 1994). So they shouldn't be an issue, and I shouldn't have even mentioned it. -- Richard Maine [log in to unmask] %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%