thank you all.. i will look at that.. here's the deal
the program is written in java... it runs and make backups of all your eudora emails...
the reason that i named them something differnet then .txt is just so that you don't confuse them with normal txt files... they are a very specific type of txt file!
i'm not sure if when I run the program I can make registry changes using java, but I'll try and see what i can do.
-Z