[Short recount of the problem] Accessing efs like filenames like /C: is currently impossible. The solution adopted by modern FSF emacs and efs versions is to use the /: syntax. I.e. access /:/C: instead. In fact that syntax even works for the efs version that corresponds to XEmacs 21, in the sense that efs now uses /[^:]+: as the regexp so efs won't touch it. Unfortunately the core of XEmacs does not know how to turn "/:path" into "path". That is probably a bug. A perverse work around is to use /localhost:/C: Jan -- Jan Vroonhof http://www.math.ethz.ch/~vroonhof/ Mathematik, vroonhof ＠ math.ethz.ch HG E16, ETH-Zentrum, Tel: +41-1-6325456/25154 Raemistrasse 101, CH-8092 Zuerich. Fax: +41-1-6321085