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Bob, "too many arguments" is no big deal, just break it down into smaller subsets of what you want. I do it on the UNIX machines all the time. ARP isn't an issue either…it's not standard. IF the shell had done command line expansion..the ARP would have been built to handle it. If in the future, the shell does command line expansion, then ARP can be changed to handle it. In fact, that's a particulary good reason for shell expansion. ARP could use the '*' character to mean target == souce so that copy #?.c *.save would get the #?.c expanded by the shell, and the *.save would be handled by the ARP command as 1 for 1 with the input arguments. The other options would be to escape the wildcards so the shell doesn't expand: copy #?.c \#\?.save Don