Hi Fabian ... yes, apparently this is a known documented problem to do with the underlying API that Ruud uses (GetPrivateProfileString) ... it doesn't return errorcodes like most other API's do - it returns the number of bytes read - I guess Ruud just discards it into the bit-bucket.

Have to do a couple of things ... insure that the file exists with the EXIST() function, and make sure to provide the fully qualified filepath to READPROFILESTRING() ...

[ 30 July 2002, 19:30: Message edited by: Shawn ]