I want to use smbtar (Samba 1.9.18p10 from RH5.2) to back up an OS/2 HPFS partition, and HPFS FindFirst considers "\\*" to be an invalid filespec. Looking at dos_clean_name() in util.c, it looks like I should just be able to collapse double-backslashes to single backslashes at the end of the routine, after "\.\" strings have been collapsed. Any reason why this won't work or might be a Bad Thing? What does this code look like in the new release? Ken mailto:shiva@well.com http://www.well.com/user/shiva/ http://www.e-scrub.com/cgi-bin/wpoison/wpoison.cgi (Death to Spam!)