** Reply to message from "Patricia M. Godfrey" <priscamg@xxxxxxxxxx> on Sat, 06 Mar 2010 15:42:48 -0500 > This could be one of those things where Ghostscript is determined > to go in c:\Program Files--where I don't want to put it, because > Xy has problems with that directory (a long while ago, someone > posted an explanation: IIRC, it was that C:\Program Files is > actually 2 directories, one inside the other, and both named > Program Files. Which naturally throw Xy--and any other DOS app--a > curve). Nonsense. The archive bit may be set on that directory and subdirs, which prevents XyWrite from reading it -- out of the box, a lot of things on C: are inaccessible to Xy4 because of that bloody archive bit. (Years ago I wrote and discussed here a BATch file that stripped that damn bit off every directory in any drive -- can't remember the filename offhand, DArchBit.CMD or something like that for NT, and DArchBit.BAT for 9x. You ran that program, and then you never had that problem again, ever -- if you understand the implications of un-hiding files and dirs that the operating system thinks should be hidden from the common man -- when you do this, you go a long way toward operating as what Unix would call "root", the superuser with limitless power. And as any *nix person will tell you, you should never run as root. But I gotta admit, in 35 years I've never run as anything BUT root!) Here's the real point (lest we digress): it ain't XyWrite that's accessing the C: drive, it's a DOS BATch file -- and DOS does not experience this problem, only ancient outdated defunct out-to-pasture apps like Xy4 do. The only thing Xy4 did was write FO.PS to D:\XY4, as well as the temporary BATch file. ----------------------------- Robert Holmgren holmgren@xxxxxxxxxx -----------------------------