A belated rejoinder to: This bug existed from (at least) the Fifth up until the Eighth editions from 1127 (BTL research). The Ninth edition had much rewrites in the kernel and the algorthim was changed at that point. You're welcome. I can't remember, though, whether I fixed it on purpose or as part of the many general cleanups and restructurings I did at that point. And I didn't do enough of it; recently I discovered a dumb problem that I probably introduced in the same cleanups, wherein the i-node allocated for a file that couldn't be created because the file system was full and the directory entry couldn't be written was left allocated but nameless ... Norman Wilson Toronto ON