The following patch replaces snprintf() in xtl-1.3/include/xtl with a strstream, allowing output on machines tthat do not have snprintf() in the C library. It also cleans up text.h and objio.h a little, allowing compilation of the codes in xtl-1.3/examples/tests with DEC cxx. Angus The attached tar file file contains text.h-patch and objio.h-patch