You can also use the DirectOS Xtra from www.directxtras.com. I actually prefer it in many ways for most of my tasks. Andrew ------------------------------------------ Andrew Dempsey Multimedia Developer and Consultant Cairo, Egypt Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone/Fax: (+202) 267-7691 Web: www.andrewdempsey.com >Well Andrew, that's exactly the way I want to do it. Most of it is >working already, Just that hard disk key was missing. I have looked at >BuddyAPi but could not find such a function (probably not included in >Macintosh, which is my developer platform) but now I'll look for it again. > >Thank you very much. > >best regards, Florian [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]