carl, no errors, more a slight hassle. my xywrite boots up in vdosplus directory, and I have placed all my working directories/files in vdosplus; but if I need to fiddle with my keyboard or startup.int or other xywrite files, I have to go from vdosplus to C:, then from C: to my xywrite (in a directory I call xyfiles). ideally, I’d have those xywrite files/the xyfiles directory under vdosplus with everything else; but if I do put xyfiles in vdosplus, then my desktop shortcut doesn’t respond. I’m pretty sure it’s a matter of changing a path or something, but don’t know how to do that. but everything works as is; just hoping I can make it work a bit easier. put another way, xyfiles and vdosplus are coequal directories in the hierarchy under c:\ would like to make xyfiles subdirectory of vdosplus along with all my other working files. hope that makes sense. tom h