Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club! Thanks, Eric, your fix works. The problem here is that it requires modifying Dosshell.bat manually after every upgrade, so in the end I might decide to stick with my own "exta.bat" instead of typing "exit". Lester ------------------- Last six lines in Dosshell.bat ( arachne\system\dgi ): set prompt=%oldpmt% set oldpmt= d:\arc\system\dgi\cda.bat rem %1 rem cd %1system rem cd .. Custom file "cda.bat" placed in the same directory: @rem cda.bat - change directory to arachne @echo off d: cd\ cd arc echo returned to d:\arc ------------------- Arachne at FreeLists -- Arachne, The Premier GPL Web Browser/Suite for DOS --