Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club! >Udo: the command to switch to drive D is simply D: >Udo: I guess you hang around too often in other OSes so you got confused ... Not exactly. You didn't read my original post that started this thread. We are talking about what's happening when DOSSHELL.BAT is executed after you temporarily exit from Arachne by hitting Alt+E and then try to re-enter by typing Exit. The "bat" acts confused, not me. You will find Dosshell.bat here: Arachne\system\dgi Lester Arachne at FreeLists -- Arachne, The Premier GPL Web Browser/Suite for DOS --