I wonder if ferrets might be naturally gifted computer operators. Nestle' once crawled inside my old 386, while it was running, no less! Not only did she not get hurt (my biggest worry), not only didn't she damage the computer, but it always seemed to work better after that. Less crashes, and the mouse worked reliably. Hershey, on the other hand, seems to be more software-oriented. I got stuck in the emacs editor when I accidentally turned it on instead of vi, which I normally use. I had no idea how to shut it off, but Hershey climbed up my leg and stepped on the keyboard, and voila!, I was out of emacs and back into the Unix shell. Hershey still has an extraordinary desire to walk on the keyboard, too. And she's never crashed anything doing it, either. [I'll have to remember that. Whenever I've accidentally gotten into emacs, I have to turn my terminal off ;-)] E.S., Hershey and Nestle' (NY) [Posted in FML issue 0801]