Jean,
FYI WSH doesn't exist or enabled on all platforms. They might download and install though (happened to me and it was a pain in neck instructing the customer). For that reason I do not use WSH if I can create an API counterpart.
Cetin

>This way (using Scripting object) is realy new for me.
>It really cool! :)
>Thank you.
>
>>>I what to change the file attribute to read only.
>>>How do we do this again?
>>
>>You can use WSH

>>oFSO = CREATEOBJECT("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
>>oFile = oFSO.GetFile(lcfile) && lcfile is the name of the file
>>* Turn on the read-only bit
>>oFile.Attributes = BITOR(oFile.Attributes, 0x01)