Guest, ChipA -

You have to "be a member" to send a PM (Personal Message).

If you click on the "membership" link at the top of the Discussion page, you can sign up quickly. About all that is asked is name and email address - and you make up a password.

Once you're a member, the "Quick Links" box includes "send a personal message." This lets you send info to one other member, without "sharing" it with the whole mudcat world.

The "graphic format" means "what kind of picture files can you see." Most Windows machines will have some kind of program that will display bitmaps (.bmp) tagged image (.tif) etc files, but sometimes there's a problem in exchanging things - if you don't happen to have the "right" program to display what someone sends you.

John