> You'll have to pardon my ignorance. I am too used to manipulating > text files in Pascal. (Don't laugh.) I am just surprised: Standard Pascal didn't even have any facility to work with text files. OK, nobody used Standard Pascal, but still... > ...and this "nucleotide sequence" type will work straight from a file rather > than memory. Or even from a network connection. It doesn't matter! Konrad. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Konrad Hinsen | E-Mail: hinsen at cnrs-orleans.fr Centre de Biophysique Moleculaire (CNRS) | Tel.: +33-2.38.25.55.69 Rue Charles Sadron | Fax: +33-2.38.63.15.17 45071 Orleans Cedex 2 | Deutsch/Esperanto/English/ France | Nederlands/Francais -------------------------------------------------------------------------------