>Now my question is, where does bde point to, the begining of the size word, >the header or the actual data? Nothing I've been able to find clarifies >this. I think the beginning of the size word. I recall a (sqrt) program which added 2 bytes to the pointer (dbe).. I guess to skip the 16-bit size header. And then it re-copied the asm token (8E28?? I forget..) to the asm program. Later, Matt