Hello Paul,

PE>RTL> The following function works fine on the **first** call for any
  >RTL> particular pic file. IE:- I can load file a, b or c and it runs
  >RTL> perfect until I want to load a or b for the second time.

PE>I can't see anything wrong with the code, but try reducing
  >the whole program to a 10-line program that simply loads
  >the same file twice, and prints out the return from fread.
  >BFN.  Paul.

Yep! I tried that and it works fine..

I realize it's gottu be something in my main code but I was hoping
perhaps I was missing something peculiar to the Dos file system.

I can't for the life of me understand why it's happy to load
different files but refuses to back up...

Thanks for the input though...

(OH! Well! Life's like that Sumtimes!) Regards Ron T Lewis
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