At 02:42 AM 12/11/98 +0100, Eric Thomas wrote: >amount). It >would be easy to change this to say "he or she or it" and "his or her or >its" and so on, >and it could even be made optional. However, development for 1.8d is closed >and we are >only making last minute fixes, so it will have to wait until 1.8e. > > Eric Eric, thanks for the fine education for the less-well-informed in the USA. That being send, I hope that you delay the gender nonsense mentioned above until at least 1.8y or 1.8z, and perhaps even until 7.7g cheers happy holidays to all [assuming that you can pick the one or more of your choice without offense] dan -- Dan Lester, 3577 East Pecan, Boise, ID 83716-7115 USA 208-383-0165 [log in to unmask] http://www.84.com/ http://www.idaholibraries.org/ http://library.boisestate.edu/ http://cyclops.boisestate.edu/ http://www.lili.org/ Sent me a postcard of a library yet?