Ryan Leavengood wrote: ... > > So you spend hours, poking and poking and poking, never really sure if > there is a duck inside, because the box just never told you it was > empty. Eventually you die of starvation, all because that clever guy > turned off that switch. So is this, like, Schröäinger's Duck? James -- http://www.ruby-doc.org http://www.rubyxml.com http://catapult.rubyforge.com http://orbjson.rubyforge.com http://ooo4r.rubyforge.com http://www.jamesbritt.com