Hi all, Thanks for your advice on this. I finally solved the problem - it was silly me not passing the correct file handle to the read() function. Because UNIX is intelligent and knows how to deal with paths, it didn't complain about the stripping of the path info in the filehandle I gave it to read. Windoze however requires this information or it cannot stat the filedata correctly. By creating a second filehandle that had the path info included and reading from that, both UNIX and DOS are happy and life goes on. Thanks for your help... rachel -- Rachel Polanskis Optus/Excite@Home UNIX Administrator 100 Harris Street IT Operations Pyrmont, Sydney NSW [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ph: (+61 2) 900 51144 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
