Hi Gerd, > > Does it work on things like word documents? > > Nope. Word is a binary proprietary format. A while ago I played with > some libraries to decode that stuff, but gave up. I have good luck with catdoc in the past: http://www.45.free.net/~vitus/software/catdoc/ -- guy@albertelli.com 0-7-1-7-27,137