that I can do... I want more data than what I can read. I want to squeeze every bit of data i can out of the file.

i am wondering if all of the files are interconnected in a way that you can't get everything out of say downloads.dat without library.dat.

from what I understand of JOS it doesn't work that way. which leads me back to being able to unpack the information in the downloads.dat, spam.dat and libray.dat files...

thanks in advance