>As it has to preserve the Path that represents,
>and because in the cPath dataspace:

>"" == "." == ".\" not = "\"

>empty has to remain empty.

Peter, to clarify this a bit more:

STRTOFILE("This is a test", "test.txt")

lcPath = ''

? FILE(lcPath + "test.txt")
? FILE(ADDBS(lcPath) + "test.txt")

lcPath = lcPath + "\"
? FILE(lcPath + "test.txt")

ADDBS() should not change the path. If it worked the way you expected, it would.