G'Day Daryl,
 
-=> Quoting Daryl Willis to All <=-
 DW> when I pass the structure through this sorting routine
 DW> I end up with a Null Pointer asignment. What sort of tests can

 DW> char *tempattrib;
 DW> long int size;
 DW> char *tempfile;             // temp storage for the swap
I think that's the problem neither tempattrib nor tempfile is a 
storage, they're only a pointer.

so you'll have to have something like this before you attempt to use them
as storage..
 
tempfile = (char*) malloc(strlen(filefound)+1); /* (or MAXFILE ) */
if(!tempfile) return NOMEM; /* no memory */
and after finished using it, free(tempfile);
      
Ideally for this sort of thing you should declare tempfile like..  
tempfile[MAXFILE]; where MAXFILE is defined 13 (in Borland it's in Dir.h)
This would do away with the need for the allocation, it is probably more 
efficient, or at least more redable this way and 13 bytes in a subroutine
is likely to be available at all times.

same would apply to tempattrib, shouldn't that be only an integer anyway?

Hope this helps, but not as much as i hope that i'm right.:-)              
                                                         
                                                
  L8r Frank (fadam{at}ozemail.com.au).
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