Hi, I just found that Boost File System seems to be completely broken on my system. The mini-program below always behaves the same, it will print the string enclosed in the first if-statement, regardless what the values of p1 and p2 are. I compiled boost on Cygwin with msvc-8.0. I also tried the binary distribution for Windows XP, but I get the same problems. What can this be? Cheers, Andrej #include <iostream> #include <boost/filesystem.hpp> using namespace boost::filesystem; int main(int argc, char* argv[]) { // No matter what values you put in here, // always same behavior. path p1("/nomatterwhat1"); path p2("/nomatterwhat2"); if (!exists(p1)) { // This is always printed. std::cerr << "Directory does not exist: " << p1; return 1; } if (!exists(p2)) { / This is never printed. std::cerr << "Directory does not exist: " << p2; return 1; } return 0; } __________________________________________________________ Not happy with your email address?. Get the one you really want - millions of new email addresses available now at Yahoo! http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/ymail/new.html