>>Tried to access Alta-Vista's BabelFish translator without success. > May be you should try: http://babelfish.altavista.com/tr ?? All accesses failed. The problem was, and still is, a DNS error or functional equivalent in my ISP. I've added a DNS entry to another provider and all is now well for me. Not so good for most of their other customers. Was a good opportunity to compare Google and Alta Vista translators. Lack of traditional Chinese by Google is a grave omission. The business emails I get with Chinese therein all use traditional rather than simplified Chinese. RM -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist