Cunieform - I had to snicker at this. Yet essentially correct. Who knows if we'll be using the same language in 1000 years, much less that a glyph will be represented by eight (or sixteen - we can't even standardize on that) 1's and 0's that far ahead? As others have said, I agree the problem won't be the method of storing the data, it'll be reading/interpreting it back out again. Anyone want to try reverse-engineering table data out of an MDF file bit dump? :w00t: