Hi Jay,

> If you ask it to append handleTwo& to handleOne& without
> unlocking at least one of them, there is obviously no way it can be done.

I should have think of this before asking for help but probably I
misunderstood the notes about handandhand in Think Reference. Can
someone check this one too ?

> but my question actually referred to the DATA statement
> in the next line--It didn't appear functional to me, so I wondered.

It was only garbage from a wild paste. (Curiously, I noticed a strange
behaviour of the paste funtion with NetScape when FB is running in the
background)

> What a useful and elegant set of functions Osamu has posted
> for dealing with handles!!!
> ... you will surely find them valuable someday

Yes indeed and I plan to use them. I yet thanked Osamu privately but it
is worth thanking him publicly as well.

Many thanks to you too for your precious help.

Alain