Hi all but this is especially for Russell Peters After some investigations we could define the problem of Dr Fabrizio Villanova The problem is in the new dosmatch function in Util.c I noticed that this is re-written in 1.7.0, proving Fabrizio right that the problem is the DLL With the combination of AddRecurseDirs in Wild() the function dosmatch is called. the problem filespecs all started with ';' and did not have extensions Now the first test in dosmatch is if (*p==';') Can anyone tell me why this char is considered special in a Windows environment? if I change the statement to e.g. if (*p=='*') then the problem of skipping the files is solved Roger Aelbrecht http://web.wanadoo.be/driehoeksw