On 07/31/2005 04:18:34 PM, Jeanne Altmann wrote: . Karl has only 'alive' and 'dead' in his new code The system needs to know whether an individual is alive, which I would like to test for by looking for the one-and-only alive status code. Karl <kop@meme.com> Free Software: "You don't pay back, you pay forward." -- Robert A. Heinlein