Alatlal info The "text file" is a GIF screendump of the transcribed text written under the Mac Arabic OS and can be requested in the text format by email from me. The sound bytes are 11 khz recordings of the start, middle and end of the song sampled on a Mac and converted to SUN format with sox via a Next. The soundfiles can be played with the SUN utility /usr/demo/SOUND/play or converted and played on virtually any machine with sound capabilities. Play takes the option -v for volume on a range of 0 - 100. These are binary files DON'T FORGET TO FTP WITH BINARY FORMAT ON. Alatlal was Um Kalthoum's favorite song. It is composed by Riad Elsnbati with lyrics by Ibrahim Naji. - Barre Ludvigsen