There is a program from the net called rmgarbage which does renaming of bad filenames. I am going to check to see if it knows / as bad, but it fixes control and 8th bit characters. -- bill davidsen (wedu at ge-crd.arpa) {uunet | philabs | seismo}!steinmetz!crdos1!davidsen "Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me