dv> I'm afraid you're right. Now, maybe we can avoid printing them all dv> (there are currently 5). [...] Maybe I'll ask RMS about this. Another possibility would be to use the echo area as a marquee the way VM does. I doubt it's satisfactory, but you could ask RMS (but mentioning VM as the inspiration is probably not a good idea ;-) A variation on the theme would be to do a Java-ized Web-advert-style "rotating text" using timers. What I have in mind is that the splash buffer comes up with the full set of copyrights and help stuff together, then rotates them en bloc every 5 seconds in the buffer. I wish I had time to implement, just to see if it looks good :-( Heck, if it were cool enough, people might never deselect the splash buffer :-) -- University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences Tel/fax: +81 (298) 53-5091 __________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ What are those two straight lines for? "Free software rules."