Sherry,

>Thank you for your help. The code you gave me works.

Glad to hear it.

>Let me tell you what I am trying to do: an Unix application passes over an image file. The Unix application will make a call to my program which is runing on a novel server.

How does the Unix application call your program? Running on a Novell server.... I assume you mean running on a workstation connected to a Novell server?

>My program will first to check if MS Imaging Application is already running, if so, just update the image file. If the Imaging Application is not running, the program will create the object and open up the Imaging Application.

Why not just have your program start up Imaging and keep it running all the time?

>Now I have to find a way to capture the information the system creates with the createobject() and store it in a file and I can use it when the Imaging Application is already running.

I don't follow you at all here. Capture what information the system creates? Store what in a file? Why?