I visited corel's web site and they will be offering the full version of Corel WordPerfect 8 for a low price of $50. This seems like a great deal and rounds out what I need to move off of NT. With applixware 4.4.1 reading adabas D files, using qddb to support a few smaller databases, SO 5 as a backup, and wordperfect 8, I think I can consider moving from NT and freeing up all that wasted disk space. As a matter of interest, one can attach to a adabas D database quite easily using applix 4.4.1. This means that one has a gui tool to build queries and other stuff against a complex data source. This is quite cool. Thanks to Rolf at suse for the web site. If you want to see how easy it is, drop me an email and I can send the url along. Now if I can find some manuals and howto's on the art of building simple to medium adabas databases, I am getting closer to whatever goal I want to reach. I know there is a mailing list for adabas D. The list first appeared primarily in German. Are there english posters to the list? Since I am talking applications, applix has released new filters for office97 on the errata portion of their website. If you are wanting to build small database applications and want a gui tool, consider qddb from hsdi. They are at www.hsdi.com/qddb. They provide all their database tools in rpm format. One other thing since I am kind of wandering here, is that filerunner makes a really nice file manager. It does ftp, nice management approaches, etc. I use tkdesk as my only application selector and it shines far beyond tkdesk's file manager. Filerunner also has a rather unusual configuration routine. This is one nice file manager which is simple and complex at the same time. A version exists on suse's 5.3 distro. I like compiling things though. Then I can get mad and irritated at make errors :-) -- Michael Perry mperry@basin.com ------------------ - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e