Copyright 1990 by David Satz (CompuServe 73125,151). All Rights Reserved. A Ventura Publisher document has a .CHP and a .CIF file, a style sheet, and possibly some text and graphics files. The .CHP file is the key to it all--it contains an exact listing of all the other constituent files plus secret symbols used for pulling them into a coherent whole. You are not supposed to use DOS' COPY or XCOPY commands to move Ventura files around, since that makes all the .CHP file's internal pointers point to where the files aren't any more, and that renders the .CHP file unable to be loaded into Ventura from its new location. The manual explains all this--but still many innocent, well-meaning Ventura users find it out the hard way. This utility is for them/you/us. FIXCHP chpname ["wild card" arguments are OK] allows Ventura document files to be reactivated after they've been copied to a drive or directory other than the one on which the original .CHP file was created. FIXCHP rewrites the .CHP file, adjusting its file pointers to refer to the drive and directory that you are currently logged onto. It makes a similar adjustment to the .WID file pointer in the .STY file, unless the directory name "VENTURA" occurs anywhere in that pointer. The original .CHP and .STY files are kept as backups.