Reply to note from "Wengier W"Wed, 29 Jan 2020 18:53:52 +0000 (UTC) Wengier, Thank you very much for following up. You are absolutely right. There was a zero-byte file named "DIR", from 2012, in the current directory. (Have no idea how it got there, but I'm sure I'm the culprit.) I've downloaded your latest release of start.exe, and it works just as you report in your reply. Thanks so much for updating this essential tool! -- Carl Distefano cld@xxxxxxxxxx