On Mon, 4 Aug 2003 03:00:23 EDT, Eddie Turner wrote: >Are you running into the proble when you are running it stand alone on a >different computer? I'm encountering the problem only on my WinXP computer. I've installed Visual Basic on it. The program runs just fine from within Visual Basic but fails when I compile to EXE and execute it. (On my laptop [Win98se], the same compiled program runs fine as an EXE file as well as from within Visual Basic.). I suppose that it's possible for different files to be used in the Visual Basic versus standalone mode of operation. I'll take a look at that. The fact that my program executes correctly in one case tells me that I'm at least doing something right. I just can't make heads nor tails of what the difference could be. Regards, Bob -- http://www.piclist.com hint: To leave the PICList mailto:piclist-unsubscribe-request@mitvma.mit.edu