clear, important and appropriate to this discussion. Based on the work that I did in making the ISO_9660 compatible file system, I envision that a change to the file name scanner to include the "/" character in a file name would allow the command in the example to execute, and to give the results described, on a "flat" file system. Moreover, it would give additional power. I have some objections to this solution. You may also object to this solution. Can you explain why? From: "Ghost in the Machine" <cangelich@famvid.com> | > Let me explore the following user interface scenario. | > | > 1. A command of the nature | > System.Directories eMail/Y02/July/* | > produces list of file names that the user named and saved from email | > received in July 2002. | > | > Is this the sort of thing you are missing? | | Don't be patronizing. | | I want to be able to separate sets of files into subdirectories | not clump them all together in one huge directory. MSDOS | v2.1 had subdirectories - did you notice that? | |