Jan-Simon Pendry pointed out the gross style in the "errno = foo" in the patch I sent in, and suggested a much more palatable change to warnx("can't access %s: %s", spec, strerror(nfhret.stat)); Also, I gave the NFS server a whirl and it seemed to work fine with the DEC OSF/1 V3.2 NFSv3 client. ==John