Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic(a)srce.hr&gt; writes: At least file-name-(non)*directory shouldn't. I would say that file-truename or expand-file-name should be the only ones to give you full path separator conversion. In my view, file-name-(non)*directory are only asking you to analyze the string, not look on the filesystem or do anything destructive to the string. If it were expected to do file-system related stuff, I would think it would check if directories exist, etc, etc. *shrug* - just don't want to change that code I guess. It worked fine up to now. :) -Bill P.