I'm not a coder but isn't big endian the opposite of little? isn't that like Ibm epsidic mainframe vs vms? It's like banging two rocks together to communicate...hehehe I would LOVE a howto for the quattro.. If there is preliminart work being done on this let me know and I can test run it.. -- Tim Gorman Information Systems Specialist Petr-All Petroleum Corp. office (315) 446-0125 x126 cell (315) 415-8108