Rad, i was kinda heading down this path, based on Howards and yours pointers, but she hasn't yielded her secrets yet, hope this helps or moves things along:

break on

$shell = createobject("shell.application")

$folder = $shell.namespace("C:\")

$file = $folder.parsename("text.txt")

?"val=" $file.extendedproperty("Title")

@SERROR

exit 1


-Shawn

p.s. just for your further investigation, not sure if mentioned already, these properties are members of ShellFolderItem, which is an extention of FolderItem - I think its the "extention" part that is not being realized here. Even though it seems like @SERROR is reporting OK - no data being displayed.

--Shawn

[ 27 May 2002, 21:27: Message edited by: Shawn ]