Thanksfor the help - been playing around with it tonight. Quite impressed (classic anglo-nz understatement. um - actually not too bad ....) so am now tempted to down load the latest version.
I have been aware off e-smith for quite some time and am glad of the opportunity to tyr it out via the Linux format cd. If I was a little bit smarter (there goes that understaement again

I would have thougt to search under 'Linux Format'.
ANyway - ta for the help.
Don