Thanks for the clue, bowerbird. changing the name to "vector.sit" seems to help the download problem, but it still won't work in the full path. Use members.aol.com/dgriggs and then just choose the vector.sit file. Sorry for all of the silly admin traffic regarding my lack of clue about sharing files. I hope my code is worth the trouble ;-) Thanks! ---------- > From: Bowerbird@... >however, even making that correction didn't help, >at least in the aol browser, because the file is stuffed, >but because it has no extension, the browser treats it as text. > >-bowerbird