In message <376A51F5.D38ECFFC@thepuffingroup.com>you write: > Should I be using objcopy to cut these sections out of my SOM executable > and into the LIF image? No, I doubt objcopy knows about LIF (I've certainly never bothered to describe LIF to objcopy/bfd). Utah's releases had code to do this kind of thing. Or you might be able to use the lif tools on hpux (ls /usr/bin/lif*). jeff