Alex, thanks for the response. > I think examples are great in the manual pages (I wish we had at least > one example in every page). > > If you can provide an example for those features, it could be good. Do > you think it would fit in the existing examples, or maybe it's better to > add a separate new example? unless you or someone thinks otherwise, i would first try to see if i can make the notifications sit naturally inside the current asynchronous example. i think they will, but maybe they won't. if that doesn't seem to work, i can try to slim down my current code, convert to getopt(3), etc., and see if you think the results would work as an additional example. cheers, Greg