text: Merci Rich pour l'aide...although I feel some contempt in your comment. I maintain "self-sufficient", however. Meriam-Webster's definition: "having an extreme confidence in one's own ability or worth". That's pretty much what I think and what he thinks of himself.
  
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  I'm patiently awaiting the correction, Rich. Merci encore