Justin Whear & H.S. Teoh Yep, that's what I assumed, too. But that's so C Style. Wouldn't it befit phobos to have sth. like normalizePath? Like: On Unix/linux rep ' ' with '\ ' " replace ~ with $HOME etc. so as to have normalizePath return a path equal to what the shell would do? Well, whatever, I hope the OP (Paul Jurczak) could solve the problem. A+ - R