Cassandra: Ok, I've fixed the code. It was a dumb mistake, I don't know why it had'nt come up before, i.e., since UNICOS fortran change made internal writes beyond length of char vars a fatal error. Anyway, I think you should revise your inputs, becuase I calculate you would get 15,096 frames with your current setup: (37 slices) * (17 fields) * (24 times) = 15096 frames. --Ben