On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 08:23:54PM -0500, Mark Mielke wrote: > > Considering that much of the code currently references shared memory, > I wonder if it would be simpler to use threads instead of processes > for ntserv, daemonII, robotII, etc.? Yes. Switching to a thread model would also make a native WIN32 port of the server quite easy. A couple of hours of work. -- Dave Ahn | ahn at vec.wfubmc.edu | Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Try to live your life so that when you die, you will rejoice and the world will cry. -1/2 jj^2