>I vaguely recall that the difference in characters in a VAR name >must occur within the first 15 or 16, though the names may >be much longer - like 31? characters. I don't find anything in >the FB^3 documentation that spells this out. Does anyone know >for sure? The Reference would be nice. I could be wrong, but I think they're unique to 250 or so characters... unless that's just for FN names. Al Staffieri Jr. AlStaff@... http://members.aol.com/AlStaff/index.html