Chuck F wrote:

An integer requires 4 bytes, and must be aligned at a multiple of 4.

Fairly say I never heard about it must be aligned in record. I use Pascal some years now (not GNU) and always mixed different types in records without problems. Thanks for explanation. I take my words (buggy GPC) back ;-) Peter. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance: Get your refund fast by filing online. http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html