In case anyone's interested I'm going to submit this to the cvs folks when I can verify that it works. I can't do this until our sysadmin wakes up and allows cvs connections through the web server. If anyone else wants to try it - be my guest.... Its against cvs 1.10.3 andy --------------------------------------------------------------------------- " .sigs are like your face - rarely seen by you and uglier than you think" Dr Andy Piper, Technical Architect, Parallax Solutions Ltd mail: andyp(a)parallax.co.uk web: www.parallax.co.uk/~andyp