Neil

So .. the reverse is READINI.PRG

PARAMETERS cSection, cEntry, cINIFile
LOCAL cDefault, cRetVal, nRetLen
cDefault = ""
cRetVal = space(255)
nRetLen = LEN(cRetVal)
DECLARE integer GetPrivateProfileString IN WIN32API ;
                STRING cSection, ;
                String cEntry, ;
                STRING cDefault, ;
                STRING @cRetVal, ;
                INTEGER nRetLen, ;
                STRING cINIFile 
nRetLen = GetPrivateProfileString(cSection,;
                                  cEntry, ;
                                  cDefault, ;
                                  @cRetVal, ;
                                  nRetLen, ;
                                  cINIFile)
return left(cRetVal,nRetLen)

and:

lcDatabaseFolder	= ALLTRIM( READINI( "your_square_bracketed_section", "Entry_in_section", lcIniFile))

Your servant, Sir.

>Terry,
>
>Just has a brainwave for my application, head is sore!!!
>
>My form when initialised has a combo with a list of all users from a table. When they click the button it opens up the application and writes the username in the combo to the ini file. Works great!!!
>
>That ini file is stored in the user home drive of the domain user that has logged on. therefore is it possible when they open the original form that it can write the contents of the username.ini file to be the default username?
>
>Basically reverse the process?
>
>Thanks