GBeckman wrote:

>Sorry to be a broken record, but I really need this one solved.

(snip)

Thank goodness I keep scraps around...   ;-)

'using FN MakeAlias & FN UseAlias with the OPEN command
DIM spec;0,vRefNum%,parID&,filename$;64

LONG IF FN useAlias(1000,spec)
PARENTID = parID&
OPEN "R",1,filename$,,vRefNum%
END IF
PARENTID = 0




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