Hallo Ting-Chiao
 MM> I forgot to mention it is necessary to turn off word allignment
 TC> Why? According to the online-help of BP7 and Delphi 1.0 the
 TC> directive {$A-/+} does not affect byte-sized variabels, fields of
 TC> records and objects and elements of array's.
I would not know. It does effect record types in Delphi 2.0, which I found 
out the hard way.
Groeten, Martin.
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