I've just come across a couple of files which have attributes of "AO", and they have a small black clock overlay.. What the heck are these files set as?? A is obviously the standard Windows "ready for archiving" attribute, but whats the O? attrib.exe doesnt deal with that.. A googling seems to say that it means those files have been archived to tape or somesuch - but I've just extracted them from a zip file! Andrew