MM> Is there a procedure to check the validity of a filename(without 
MM> drive+path)? I thought I saw it somewhere.
I haven't seen one, but I am sure there is something out there. This is 
actually quite simple to write yourself though. You simply need to wite a 
function that will scan the string for length and invalid characters and 
return an error code indicating the problem to the calling procedure. 
Steve
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