Hi all. In trying to resolve an alias record via the HFS Util FLTR file(for you pg savvy people) Anyway, It seems that I can return the correct filename, and ParID seems ok, but the vRefNum is returned as -1. So I guess I need to convert the ParID to a VRef... I'm sorry, chris and rick especially, I'm sure you told me how to get this already, but I had to compress my in-box last week (at a whopping 22M), and I only have appx 13M available on my main hd now... It took me a while to figure out exactly what to fill into the makealias and usealias functions to get them to work; that I'd already have to have another resource file open. Anyway, I think it's working pretty well now if I can get the vref thing figured out... ~ Nobody ever says, "I wanna be an STR resource when I grow up." ~ -- TJ Grant (tatewake@...) Inspired Communications. http://inspired.netstreet.net/ Phone: 407-728-7563