This bug report will be sent to the XEmacs Development Team, not to your local site managers!! Please write in English, because the XEmacs maintainers do not have translators to read other languages for them. In XEmacs 21.2 (beta36) "Notus" [Lucid] (i586-pc-win32) of Wed Oct 11 2000 on NEVERYON configured using `configure UNKNOWN' Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug and the precise symptoms of the bug: It is impossible to open a file with tilde character anywhere in path or to open a directory with a tilde anywhere in path. The same goes for EFS paths. I have tested the behavior with -vanilla. Steps to repeat: shell: md c:\~test xemacs: C-xC-f c:\~test Similar problems: xemacs (dired): C-xD c:\~test xemacs (EFS): C-xC-f /host:/~test