Hey Pipers. Jarl, I'm sorry about not getting back to you sooner. I attended that conference earlier this week and presented Piper. The talk went well. I spoke about Piper for about 30 minutes and took some questions. Some people seemed very interested in it. Have you seen all the hub-bub about .NET alternatives this week? I'm feeling a bit disturbed at the attention these projects (3 of them now) are getting, and that the FSF has endorsed 2 of them. I had been shouting "Piper is an Open Source .NET alternative!" earlier last year, and we got nearly no attention from it (of course then I had to stop saying that). Also, I wanted to get official GNU project standing from the FSF, and now it seems we may have missed that opportunity, at least with respect to Piper being a .NET alternative. One word: argh! Maybe 2 words: hold me. ;-) Anyway, maybe now we should just forget about the direct .NET comparisons (it's just too late for that) and focus on whatever cool things we want Piper to be. Jarl, I'll get back to you about the compiling problems. I have some meetings today, but I'll get to it right away. Cheers. Jeff -- J.W. Bizzaro jeff at bioinformatics.org Director, Bioinformatics.org http://bioinformatics.org/~jeff "As we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours; and this we should do freely and generously." -- Benjamin Franklin --