>I checked the link you gave me. It seems that it requires the Pointers.ocx to be useful. Since my need is to provide info for many different users, having to register the OCX on each machine is a problem.
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>The Whohasit software by NetTech Australia has the functionality without using an OCX. But, it uses an interface. I want to do it programmatically so the name of a file that cannot be accessed can be input into the function and return who has it open.
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>Any ideas re. how to avoid using the Pointers.ocx?
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Steve,

I'm not sure how Vlad implemented his pointers.ocx, but its use indicates that some of the structures of connected with the API calls utilize pointers. While it would take some work on your part to convert, Ed Rauh's CLSHeap does this and the source code is included.