In article <6c2e3ce350.pnyoung@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Dr Peter Young <pnyoung@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 1) What is the approved way of opening a directory > automatically at start-up? > Get GetFiler by Stephen Fryatt (giving him his Sunday name). Quoting from the help file it says: "Since the demise of the 'Save Desktop' option in the Task Manager menu under Select, it is no longer possible to get a list of the Filer window positions. Even under earlier versions of RISC OS, saving this file just for the *Filer_OpenDir commands was a contrived thing to do. GetFiler is s solution." In my archived download files I found v. 1.01. There may well be a later version. http://www.stevefryatt.org.uk/software/ Have fun. Chris... -- --- To alter your preferences or leave the group, visit //www.freelists.org/list/iyonix-support Other info via //www.freelists.org/webpage/iyonix-support