Greetings from Heidelberg. We are running Netware/iX on an MPE 5.0 system (recently upgraded from 4.0) Though we have an "X:" drive defined in Netware that is accessible from the HFS (/usr/netware/sys/xdrive), we have been told by one HP person that we shouldn't use shell commands to copy files between the HFS and the Netware volume -- even though simple tests seem to suggest that it works fine. The reason given was that the linkage was too "fragile". Can this be right? One attraction of Netware/iX for us when we purchased it was the possibility of just such transparent access from HFS when we upgraded to 5.0. Does anyone have any further information on this topic? Anyone actually doing this? Thanks. Bob DeWitt Director, Information Systems University of Maryland -- European Division [log in to unmask]