On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 01:49:31PM +0000, tim hall wrote: > Sorry, I meant url not filename. > and that should be 'f+f--f+f' anyway. ;-] They can be used in URLs, too. Actually, all characters can be used if they're encoded as a "%" followed by a two character hex code, but that shouldn't be necessary for either "+" or "-". The ones that need to be encoded are listed in RFC 1738. Chuck