>Does that work in the distributed exe too?
>If that's possible, then why wouldn't i want to use the exe as a wrapper to call a more easily updateable prg- rather than re-distribute the exe and setup?

Yeah.

>And does StrToFile basically just replace the low-level Fopen/Fwrite complications? (Or Set Printer to problems)

Its just a wrapper for them. Much clearer too, especially for storing files in memo fields.