Ian,
spot on, i was using .errno not .message
Slán
~M

>Hi Slán
>
>If you add the To clause to you catch such as
>Catch to oError
>Then oError.Message will have the error message in it.
>
>If you looks at the help file for the properties of the Exception class you'll see what other information is there.
>
>Ian Simcock.