of characters enclosed in quote marks (")." In contrast to an Oberon string, this string can contain quote marks. One quote mark in the target string is represented by two quote marks in this notation, as in APL. This is an ugly example as Chris might mind. The name of the service is Gulf"@"Net. The user is the 7 characters !@# $%^. The password is &*()_+. NetSystem.SetUser1 "pap" "Gulf""@""Net" "!@# $%^" "&*()_+" ~ So how is this? Can anyone imagine a case where it fails? es> ... implements ... Certainly willing to try. Might need help. es> I still hope that WebDAV can help here. Interesting. I am only beginning to learn about WebDAV. Regards, Peter E. http://carnot.pathology.ubc.ca/