I am opening a .dat file for random access, but when i make the open
statement, I don't want to put a particular path string because I want the
.dat file to be created and maintained in the directory in which the user
installed it.  I tried the following line of code, but to no avail:

open (app.path + "\magindex.dat") for random as #1 len=120

where magindex.dat is the file I want to maintain.  If anyone has any
suggestions, I would greatly appreciate your input by e-mailing me at

--Jason Hyman