21a Subj : Re: Borland cpp OWL To : borland.public.cpp.borlandcpp From : " Bruce Salzman" Date : Fri Oct 17 2003 11:56 am > Hi, > I have been given an executable for an old utility by one of our > engineers, when it runs all I get is the error message "ObjectWindows > Exception" "GDI file read failure". There were no other files with this > utility, That exception is thrown by the device-independant bitmap (TDib class) constructor when it tries to read a bitmap file and fails. HTH, Bruce . 0