i have another problem.. i am using -d to test whether it is a directory or not but it is telling me that all my directories are not directories. the only directories it will recognize as directories are NOT directories, and these are the . and .. used to navigate to previous dirs in win32. this is what i get when i run the script: 

. is a directory.
.. is a directory.
Cannot determine filetype of digsol.
here is the filetest section of my script: 

if (-f $i) {
   print OUTPUT "$i is a file.\n";
} elsif (-d $i) {
   print OUTPUT "$i is a directory.\n";
} else {
   print OUTPUT "Cannot determine what $i is.\n";
}
are there any known problems with -d and win32? i have looked around here and other sites and haven't seen any similar problems, maybe i'm just doing something wrong? TIA for any insight you can provide
JR

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