Oh Alec, verifly thou art my saviour, my hero and no doubt handsome to boot but I suspect you may look a bit fishlike with all the sardines you must eat to have such genius. It's so simple and it works. AOL automatically zips up attachments, and it's a bit weird that you first zip up the file in the normal way and then AOL zips it up again.
Thinks, with such talent perhaps if you spoke to my wife she might relent a bit earlier. After all I did remember twice in 47 years, the first anniversary and then sometime in the sixties, which with my memory is not too bad a record.......

Actually Bill and Bud this emailing of attachments is the first real problem I've had with AOL so I'll give them until the last day of the free trial before making up my mind. No cables in this area - or broadband...

Thanks fellas,

Peter