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Thanks, Bill. I've taken a different approach anyway now but I'll try your suggestions also. I wrote a quick C program that returns the file names deliminated with a line feed and return this list to the AREXX script with execio except that I'm having problems getting the directory name variable passed back to the command line. I'm doing this: /* */ PARSE ARG dirname . 'dl dirname | execio stem D.' and it looks like 'dirname' isn't recognized. This probably isn't the best way to do it but it is all just a learning experience anyway (like life?) so I'll do a few wrongs ways and then stumble on the right one. Thanks for the help, Mike