And a win98 dos box - dos 7 ? - takes a long time reading directories.Mine doesn't.If you're refreshing files,What does "refreshing files" mean?it sounds as if, instead of reading the whole directory into memory and treating it there, it reads each file's details from the hard disk - and none too quicklyI have very fast DOS 7.10 (Win98SE) operation. Harry Binswanger hb@xxxxxxxx