I am just starting to come to grips with the subject software and need to be able to write/read records to a random file. In the old VB3 you could specify path information as part of the 'Open' statement, it would appear in VBE 2008 you can only specify an integer as the filename. Is there a way around this since 'Open' is no longer supported and I need to be able to specify an absolute path address.