>Thanks, :-j >I think I'll go with my single file, str#/text rsrc idea. >Cheers >Bernie Another consideration, as you may be aware [and as I understand it] -- If you change the resources of the application on the fly, then your program can't be run from a CD, but rather from a hard drive. You see, the application has no way to write the resource changes to a CD. tedd -- http://sperling.com