My holiday gift to the world is a bit delayed, but here is a peak at it: a C++ application library, built on NCBI's Vibrant and core toolkit, for software developers. Don's Class Application library (DCLAP) will let me, and others if they want, write applications in a relatively easy way, using this oop application library. The applications will compile and run on any platforms that NCBI's Vibrant toolkit supports, that currently being Macintosh, MS-Windows and Motif-XWindows. MyApp-sparc-motif was compiled on my Sun Sparcstation, using a Motif library. It requires, I believe, the shared motif run-time libraries on your Sparc system to work. MyApp.hqx was compiled for Macintoshes. I don't have an MS-Windows system (yet), so can't provide that version. Other-Bio-Gophers is a gopher doc that one of the demos can read. The source for this C++ library will be made available free to the public -- but it still needs much work. This tidbit is at ftp.bio.indiana.edu:/util/dclap/preview -- Don Gilbert