pfile_pakstress.cpp just created a PakArchive from my CivCTP directory (32 subdirs, 709 files, total of 361 MB), mounted it and printed a directory listing of the main dir !! That means the code is more or less ready for the 0.1 release 8-) Peter, How much more time do you need to prepare PSound for that? Christian -- We all live in a yellow subroutine.