Before the 5.10 release, we were working on implementing an interface to realpath() on VMS. We discovered that the VMS behavior for non-existant paths was different than on other platforms. To get a fair sampling, could this test be run on a number of different platforms to see what the consensus on the proper behavior should be. perl -mCwd -e "print Cwd::abs_path('foo/non-existant.file')" perl -mCwd -e "print Cwd::abs_path('/foo/non-existant.file')" perl -mCwd -e "print Cwd::abs_path('non-existant.file')" On VMS, this this routine is doing syntax only lookup. What I am looking at doing is implementing it so that it actually does a lookup of the file. On UNIX, the foo/non-existant.file returns nothing, but the other two return the same as the input. The routines on VMS to do a realpath input will only work on existing files, so I need to know the expected / intended behavior for non-existent files. -John wb8tyw@qsl.net Personal Opinion OnlyThread Next