Excellent smithers. <tapping fingers together> Chris Blessing webguy at mail.rit.edu http://www.330i.net > It does work when using "." and "..". > For Example: > fs.OpenTextFile(server.mappath("..\dir\dir\file.txt") > > Craig. > > > I believe you can use relative pathing within the server.mappath() > function > > but I cannot recall 100% since I haven't tried it myself. :) > > > > Chris Blessing > > webguy at mail.rit.edu > > http://www.330i.net