well, thank you very much, i didn't know there was a Win32 lib.
i noticed that use used cwd() to get the path instead of getcwd(), before my code was working using getcwd() now i had to use cwd() to make it work, is there a differences between these 2 subroutines or are they just aliases of the same subroutine.

thanks for the help

jjdraco

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