Hi All --- I am afraid that Robbin speaks the truth when it comes to the use of GIF's. It appears that Compuserve and Unisys decided back in June to charge a fee for any developers use of GIF images and that the consequences could be extremely dire. What it may do is spell the death of the GIF image format, and a move to JPEG image formats, but it is still an open issue. I have a long post from another listserver that I would be happy to pass along to anyone who is interested, but since it is quite long I thought it best not to post the whole thing to the list. It includes the ORIGINAL agreement between Unisys and CompuSWINE from back in 1987, a letter of protest from the president of Delphi and the terms of the agreement that go into effect in six days, Jan. 10. Cheers, Robert Guralnick | Museum of Paleontology | University of California Berkeley, CA 94720 | [log in to unmask] | (510) 642-9696 p.s. Happy New Year