How about because it's easy to do? -michael - NadaNet 3.1 and AppleCrate II: http://home.comcast.net/~mjmahon Yea, easy if you have the "missing link" (overlayiigs). I was given another idea of forcing a separate file generation for the blank 'gaps' which can be left out of the final piecing together. I'm slowly learning more about the MPWIIGS system than I care to... Larry