Kinda risky giving out a MICROS~1 url, especially an MSDN one, on a linux user's group mailing list, so I'll make good by including a couple linux API urls, (and dedicate them to the Norse god of snow, may he dump upon us well this year!) http://doc.trolltech.com/2.3/index.html http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/libgnome/libgnome.html hehehehe- :) ljp