|And any suggestions for converting paths to a minimal canonical |form. For instance, under Unix-lie filesystems, '/name/..' |and '/////' are both removed. That isn't correct behavior for /name/.., because if name is a symlink, /name/.. may not be /. The reason I mention this on the MacPerl list is because I suspect (although I haven't tried it) aliases present the same problem. Brian ***** Want to unsubscribe from this list? ***** Send mail with body "unsubscribe" to mac-perl-request@iis.ee.ethz.ch