Thanks, Adam, your input has helped to clarify my thinking and is reassuring - I was beginning to confuse myself quite a lot! I must try not to do so much of the brain thing late at night, it rarely works out well... ;-) Cheers Julie _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies