"Vin Shelton" <acs(a)alumni.princeton.edu&gt; writes: Tried that, no success :-( Tracing the function calls it seems that `make-dialog-box' gets called properly. The underlying function `make-dialog-box-internal' seems to ignore the `:initial-directory' part. ,---- | 1 -> read-file-name: prompt="Save MIME part to: " dir="c:\\Documents and Settings\\mh\\Downloads\\" default=nil must-match=nil initial-contents="xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx" history=nil | | 2 -> read-file-name-1: type=file history=file-name-history prompt="Save MIME part to: " dir="c:\\Documents and Settings\\mh\\Downloads\\" default="~\\Downloads\\xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx" must-match=nil initial-contents="xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx" completer=read-file-name-internal | | | 3 -> make-dialog-box: type=file cl-keys=(:title "Save Mime Part to" :initial-directory "c:\\Documents and Settings\\mh\\Downloads\\" :file-must-exist nil :initial-filename "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx") `---- Try evaluating this and observe what happens: (make-dialog-box-internal 'file '(:title "Save Mime Part to" :initial-directory "c:\\Foo" :file-must-exist nil :initial-filename "bar")) Best regards Marcus _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://calypso.tux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta