>>This would all be easier if I can send the brush resource to the list (1607 >>bytes) as a .sit file. >> >>But I can code an extra 6K more to nullify the need. :) Or just put the whole thing in the DropBox, and post the URL... <http://ftp.futurebasic.org/futurebasic/dropbox/> Or, (and I hate to suggest this, I really do...) BinHex it and paste it in the message. That gets through, as long as it's less than 32K _total_. But then someone will reply and quote the whole thing (which renders the BinHex unusable anyway) and someone will reply to that, and I'll start getting nasty emails. <sigh> Bill