Aidan Kehoe writes: > and use that information. If the user has a particularly riced-out > environment that doesn’t conform to expectations, then that user > can modify the file-name and native coding system aliases by hand. Sure, they can. But the problem is not that the environments are riced-out; it's that you limit your expectations to what you deal with. You put a different spin on it, but that's the excuse you use regularly for committing buggy patches. "I don't have that system, so I couldn't test it."