d.p. hit 15,000 e-texts a while back when i wasn't paying much attention... congratulations to the volunteers who've worked so hard on this vital task! i and many others appreciate deeply the time and energy you've contributed. i recently hit a milestone myself. for the first time ever, i have now installed guiguts on my mac. (after having first upgraded from tiger to leopard.) yay! and boy, what a hassle it was. (not to mention all the earlier failed attempts.) these kinds of installation difficulties are _not_ what us mac users are used to. of course, this crap isn't unique to guiguts in any way, shape, or form. i chuckle at _all_ of the open-source programmers who think that just because a linux program _can_ be inflicted on a mac, they can call it "mac compatible"... maybe it will _run_. but we mac users expect a much higher standard than that. we expect a program to be _friendly_ to us, very friendly, not outright _hostile_. and any time we have to scrounge around in "terminal", that is _hostile_. (and no, it's not because we're incapable of doing that. no, it's because we know that it's not _necessary_ that one has to deal with crap like that.) but those poor people over at d.p. are used to being abused... they just sit and take it. and every once in a while, make a little pipsqueak. lately, for instance, lvl wondered it he could skip a round if he used an independent digitization to compare against the output from a round... after the tons and tons of research that i've shared about that method, both over on the d.p. forums and in _countless_ posts on this listserve, you'd think that they'd be past the asking stage on that particular matter. and meanwhile carlos is still whining because there's no .html generator. first of all, there _is_ one, in guiguts. and donovan scripted another one. and i've programmed my own, and shown that it's _not_ all that difficult, and have even offered to make mine available to distributed proofreaders. and i'll repeat the offer again, right now. but they won't take my help. they're too stubborn. they'd rather whine. still, i continue to offer it. indeed, here's my newest pledge. i'll create a clone of guiguts, one with these installation instructions: download, decompress, and double-click. (if you want to know how radical that is, read any one of a _large_ number of d.p. forum threads where people have battled with guiguts installation.) the only catch is that 1.5 dozen people have to say they'd like such a tool. just 18 people, sending messages to this listserve, saying "please make it". that's all i need to start working on it... -bowerbird ************** Recession-proof vacation ideas. Find free things to do in the U.S. (http://travel.aol.com/travel-ideas/domestic/national-tourism-week?ncid=emlcn...)