ACtually, what you can also do is use the Registry to store that information, user SaveSettings, GetSettings and the other Registry related functions. This is the "official" method Microsoft would like developpers to use (also part of being certified as a "true" Win9x/NT program).

Just another way of them shoving "standards" down our throats... er, I mean, simplyfying our lives as developpers, right?!

Hugo

>Thanx Rolando,
>
>>Private Sub Command1_Click()
>>Dim NumFile As Integer
>>Dim myPath As String
>> NumFile = FreeFile
>> Open "c:\path\path.ini" For Input As #NumFile
>> Input #1, myPath
>> MsgBox (myPath)
>> Close #NumFile
>>End Sub
>
>Your code worked great. Also, I finally figured out this object oriented version using the TextStream Object (VB6):
>
> Set fs = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
> Set a = fs.OpenTextFile("c:\windows\temp\path.ini")
> mpath = a.ReadLine
>
>Also reads the first line of c:\windows\temp\path.ini
>
>thanx again,
>John Morga