Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club! >L: bad command or filename - "d:\arc\" >GM: That command should switch to drive D: >GM: It looks like your dos is not switching drives, for some reason. That's correct, it doesn't. If I switch manually to prompt D:\> then Exit command works fine. I don't even have to go all the way to D:\ARC\> FreeDOS has the special CDD command to switch to directories far away in the tree. Example: at the prompt: C:\FDOS\BIN\> type: cdd d:\arachne\system\dgi - ent this will take you to: D:\ARACHNE\SYSTEM\DGI\> I found DOSSHELL.BAT in system\dgi folder. Not sure how to tell the bat to go back to D:\> or D:\ARC\> Tnx Lester --------------- @echo off set oldpmt=%prompt% set prompt=Type EXIT to return to Arachne$_$p$g if exist ppp.log set prompt=You are still online$_Type EXIT to return to Arachne$_$p$g if (%COMSPEC%)==() goto nocomspec %COMSPEC% /E:1024 goto end :nocomspec COMMAND.COM /E:1024 :end set prompt=%oldpmt% set oldpmt= %1 cd %1system cd .. --------------- Arachne at FreeLists -- Arachne, The Premier GPL Web Browser/Suite for DOS --