This looks like it should work, but I've still got no joy. If I print the filename, it's still coming back as "0". Should I have to do anything to coerce $filename back into something that I can print? I'm wondering if the "Open" method is working in the first place.

UPDATE:

It looks like I can get methods that want a pointer to a long to work by initializing them with $var = Variant(VT_I4|VT_BYREF, 0);. The docs say that the BSTR variables have to be initialized to NULL. Isn't that what we're doing with the $var = Variant(VT_BSTR|VT_EMPTY, 0) statment?

chinman