Hi

seems that I have been "fooled" by a data issue as well as a conversion task. 10 out of 10 for finding the article on corel site I did asearch for cph and found one article saying that coreldraw v9 has a flter that openscph files. However the article link just posted seems to cast doubt on that possibnility.#

Either way because (thanks to one and all ) my two files have been tried on several versions of PH it seems that they are corrupted in some way on the cd given to me. So on Monday I'll collect the dead hard drive and hang it in my old pc and see if I can read the files there.

In the dim and distant past I had a similar issue ona database and discovered to my consternation that it was so old that it wouldn't work on any hard drive over 2gb. I'd copied it to a 3.2gb ( yes it was that long ago) Another thing to try

thanks one and all and ---- watch this space

cheers

Ian