Locians, I finally got multiple I/O lines to connect properly and stay connected (next I have to work on _disconnecting_). You might be surprised by how much better it works. Here's the snapshot: http://bioinformatics.org/loci/download/snapshots/loci-core-19991129.tar.gz Please let me know what you think! BTW, it now needs gnome-python-1.0.50 which you can get at http://bioinformatics.org/resources/download/ Cheers. Jeff -- +----------------------------------+ | J.W. Bizzaro | | | | http://bioinformatics.org/~jeff/ | | | | THE OPEN LAB | | Open Source Bioinformatics | | | | http://bioinformatics.org/ | +----------------------------------+