Mark asks the question: >> It seems that HPEDIT and EDITOR refuse to edit Posix-named files under 5.5. >> >> It appears I can fool these programs by doing: >> >> rename posix,mpe >> hpedit mpe >> rename mpe,posix >> >> But I was wondering if there was a more clever way. Does anybody have >> suggestions? Stan takes the shot: > QEDIT >(Sorry, I just couldn't resist!) Freebe..... And no plug required, per previous.... Give in to temptation; it may not pass your way again..... ;-) >You might be able to do: > :file foo = ./my_posix_filename > editor > t *foo >But, I'm not sure. Now here was an easy straw worth reaching for.. While waiting for the year-end full backup to finish, I did COPY of one of the small 80-byte record data files we keep in HFS to MPE file "HPKLUDGE". Confirmed that both HPEDIT and EDITOR could text in HPKLUDGE with no problem. Then tried Stan's suggestion. Did: FILE FOOLEDIT = ./10-10-KENS Then tried to text in *FOOLEDIT with both HPEDIT and EDITOR..... :-((( HPEDIT result: Unable to open file *FOOLEDIT (HPED 2520,422) .... At least 'ole EDITOR gives you: *79*NON-MPE FILENAMES NOT SUPPORTED .... sigh..... Well, I guess us HPEDIT customers can try and do a script that automates Mark's above example, that takes an HFS file as a parameter; copies it to an MPE filename that we know we won't use for anything else; runs HPEDIT; and finally copies the new version back to the HFS file when done editing... I like COPY better than RENAME in this case even though it is less efficient, because if something goes wrong while in the script there is less chance of the original HFS file disappearing.... Ken Sletten