I AM TRYING TO WRITE CODE TO ALLOW MY PROGRAM TO ACCESS DATA IN DOS FILES WHOSE NAMES ARE USER DETERMINED RATHER THAN PROGRAMMED IN. IN OTHER WORDS THE CODE SHOULD ALLOW THE TARGET FILE NAME TO BE A VARIABLE RATHER THAN A "CONSTANT". DOES ANYBODY HAVE SOME CODE THAT THEY COULD MAIL TO ME OR POST. I WOULD BE MOST GRATEFUL. CHRISTOPHER HARRIS