In a message dated 5/9/99 2:27:30 PM Pacific Daylight Time, oh@hem.passagen.se writes: << shiess.. you are right.. I read to fast in the manual.. :) long by long is only cpu32, and 68020 and up... blowhole, divide a long by a word as johan sais and use only the lower word of the result and you will get what you want anyway :) >> thanks guys.