It's actually in plain text. Andy has used an unusual suffix. When you get something like this that Windows won't open because it doesn't recognise the suffix, just save it to disk and then look at it with your favorite text editor. In this case Notepad (WIN95) is entirely adequate. RM >*Attached is a state table I did for an IR-based alarm clock/cable TV >*converter in a PIC'57. > >*Andy >Andy, sorry, which format is this file?