Hi, I am looking into conversion of .dat files too (not for the same reason) and I think that you can access them using Pascal, but I am not completely sure yet!!! This may or may not help you Regards Rob Don www.arcproject.co.uk www.yelland.arcproject.co.uk _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha