Cheng-Wei Wu writes: AFAIK XEmacs doesn't pay any attention to that syntax. Ie, it just passes it on to the operating system. XEmacs uses different syntax (as "/host:file") to access remote files via FTP using the EFS package (almost always installed), and via SSH (including scp, as "/[host]file") using the TRAMP package (normally installed). I suppose that on Windows the underlying file system should do this for you automatically, in which case you may be running into a quoting problem (the quote character is "\" so in many contexts it must be doubled). However AFAIK on Windows "/" is completely substitutable for "\" as a file path separator, so if you're trying to access "\\damage\control", you could try "//damage/control" instead. I don't do Windows, so you should wait for more authoritative comment before giving up. But I thought I'd pass on my guesses, they can't hurt and might help. _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://calypso.tux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta