>And you'll notice that while Directory() and set("directory") are in the product, they are not in the helpfile -- despite my mentioning this in at least 2 betas. I got a side-answer finally: this was an Ashton-Tate addition to the product. I don't know if that's correct, but that's what I was told.

Ah, the NIH syndrome? :)

And as the result, we had thousands of people emulating that with sys(5)+curdir().