[Simon Knight]

Many Thanks, you may be right about working with what is already provided.

I have been playing/learning about the finders file icons and it looks like some of the OS 9 scripting commands have not been implemented (yet?) in OS X. Also I have no idea how a file link is set as the standard technique of copy as Applescript does not reveal anything. The icon issue could be overcome by having the script hold the data of a number of icons and set them according to file type (a bit of a kludge) and I am working on how to set a link by script.

Thanks again for your script.

Simon