I do not routinely post to IBM-MAIN anymore, but I was alerted to this thread by someone who does, and I have a generic suggestion to make.
To obtain technical information about these RPTs--- including information about Google's own patents on certain operations on them---use http://scholar.google.com instead of a vanilla google search. The scholar.google facility is still available only in a beta version; but it is eminently usable; there are no restrictions on accesses to it; and for purposes of this sort it is very much more productive than a traditional http://www.google.com search because it excludes (almost all of) the dreck. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA _________________________________________________________________ Make distant family not so distant with Windows Vista® + Windows Live™. http://www.microsoft.com/windows/digitallife/keepintouch.mspx?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_CPC_VideoChat_distantfamily_012008 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
