Thank you very much for your help.

>Hi Alvin
>There after is the code I'm using in my programm
>'Compact database
>DBEngine.CompactDatabase "access to the database to be pack (c:\mydb.mdb)","Access to the new database (c:\mydb.new)", dbLangGeneral, dbversion25
>Kill c:\mydb.mdb
>Name c:\mydb.new As c:\mydb.mdb
>
>Hope this help
>
>
>Jean Michel