Thanks for the info..

[Ashish Gokhale]

Hi Neal,

Thank you for the orientation. This is exactly what I
was looking for.

cheers.
Ashish

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> From: Neal H Walfield <neal@cs.uml.edu>
> Date: Sun, 03 Feb 2002 23:28:02 -0500
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