Thanks for the reply ebm, but a bit of hacking about produced the following code. Looking at the file in a hex editor revealed that the paths are stored in plain text.

One of the benefits of our ad prod system is that everything Art wise would be prefaced by "AdArt". I would assume that you could just as easily write the regex below to look for ".eps .tif" etc...

Das Code:

#! /bin/perl -w
##########################################################
# Get linked Art
# Finds out what art a QXD is using
##########################################################
$filename = $ARGV[0];

@quark_data = `strings $filename`;
@usage = parseUsage(@quark_data);
@usage = trim_path(@usage);
printArr(@usage);

sub trim_path {
my @trimmed;
    for (@_) {
        $_ =~ /AdArt\:.*\.low/;
        push @trimmed, $&;        
        }
    return @trimmed;
}

sub printArr {
    my $n = 0;
    foreach (@_) {print $n++.": $_\n"};        
}

sub parseUsage {
my @winners;
    for (@_) {
        /AdArt/ && do {push @winners, $_;};
        }
    return @winners;
    }
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Das Output:

usage.pl 1234342
0: AdArt:EHO LOGO-TIFF.low
1: AdArt:EHO LOGO-TIFF.low
2: AdArt:Header_FOR_FILLER.tif.low
3: AdArt:long_fosterlogo.tiff.low
4: AdArt:3853_dove_homes_logo.eps.low
5: AdArt:CENTEX_LOGO_THE_BEST.EPS.low
6: AdArt:long_fosterlogo.tiff.low
7: AdArt:long_fosterlogo.tiff.low
8: AdArt:CENTEX_LOGO_THE_BEST.EPS.low
9: AdArt:Century21_Logo.tif.low
10: AdArt:Century21_Logo.tif.low
11: AdArt:V3853_edgewaterlogo.tif.low
12: AdArt:forestlakelogo.eps.low
13: AdArt:long_fosterlogo.tiff.low
14: AdArt:Forest Lake.eps.low
15: AdArt:thehighlandslogo.tif.low
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I'm assuming that this would even work under windows provided you downloaded Gnu strings from the gnerds. Would probably make a nice module if I made it a bit less specific to my application.

Thanks!
Hammy