After determiningg the date I want the program to stop working (in this example it is Aug 1st of this year), I use Buddy API amd the SystemTime function something like this: on startmovie set vTheDate = baSystemTime("date") if value(vTheDate) > 20010801 then Alert "This program has expired. " quit end if end Hope this helps, Mike [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!]