Maybe we can revisit next week.  I'm at pitstax_aol.com in Castro Valley CA.  Still unsure what to use to open an .ID# file directly.  I've renamed the extension to try to head fake the process with zip, paradox, access, excel and word with no luck.  I can write a BASICA low level program I guess that can input a character stream and try to parse that but it seems like a waste of time - someone must know how to open an .ID# outside of the Lacerte application.

Merry Christmas!