Tks Ken, I used 9B2R searched and replaced with the quickbasic editor included with dos converted it all back and was done in 5 minutes. Still can't figure out how I got 2 days ahead of myself. I'm just glad there are people around who anticipate the dumb mistakes I can make :-) 73 Rick ---------------------------- Rick Laity VE1AZN | rlaity@fox.nstn.ca | ----------------------------