At 06:54 PM 3/17/99 EST, you wrote: >jonathan said: >> i tend to keep list info in STR# resources >> and only zip into LDEFs when displaying. >> This means that i can do searchs on the Strings >> much more easily than >> (attempting) to use LSEARCH or similar. > >so why didn't you tell us that 28 posts ago? ;+) I have done this in the past as well. I just wanted to learn something new, while working on this project. I also wanted to avoid more STR# resources in my app resource fork (recall my problems over creating a temp file). Thanks folks David