Ross S. W. Walker wrote: > This has the smackings of a CS student trying to get answers to > a homework project. The output looks meaningless and the input > looks just as meaningless. It makes total sense - its converting numbers in a datafile to LaTeX format. I've done that quite often as it's easy to make mistakes doing this by hand. Jeremy -- Jeremy Sanders <jss at ast.cam.ac.uk> http://www-xray.ast.cam.ac.uk/~jss/ X-Ray Group, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, UK. Public Key Server PGP Key ID: E1AAE053