Yeh, but no one would be that dumb, arrgghh, I forgot the blond mode, I will include it.

>>I think the CASE LEN( CHRTRAN( m.lcUpperJustFileName, m.lcValidChars, "" ) ) > 0 catches this.
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>"N", "U", and "L" are valid chars. I meant the NUL device. Just try to create nul.txt and you'll see that it still throws an error.