jon said:

Canonically formatted files are VERY efficiently handleable.

i know that.

But you knew that BB, didn't you?

yes i did. what i do _not_ know is this: who is going to hire the temp whose job it will be to format the p.g. metadata canonically? will it be _you_, jon? ;+) -bowerbird p.s. again, the book is called "everything is miscellaneous"...