>Step 3. Think: "Why am I using these notoriously incomprehensible >ParamBlock routines? They hark back to the 1980's. Why am I not using the >FB file statements: Open, Write #, and so on? For special toolboxery, if >that is really necessary, why don't I use a FSSpec with FSxxxx routines, >which would be 1990's code and less conspicuously out of date?" > >Macho Mac programmers would do anything, even drink bad beer, to avoid >PBxxxxx calls. > >Step 3' Drink another glass of Fine Old Panther Piss. Go to step 3. Thanks RP. My, you are getting humorous in your old age. :) Or did you just grow old writing the Appearance beast... :) Still awaiting the 600 page RP classic, "Inside FB3: Working Smarter, Not Harder". Really. Hurry. rc