Jim Freeze wrote: > I've posted on this three times and have yet to see a response. > Are my emails getting through or is this of no interest to anyone? Your email is getting through, and I get the same result with Linux: $ ruby -v test.rb ruby 1.8.1 (2004-02-06) [i686-linux-gnu] /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb:591:in `rmdir': Not a directory - fred/upandover (Errno::ENOTDIR) from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb:591:in `remove_dir' from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb:585:in `remove_dir' from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb:581:in `foreach' from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb:581:in `remove_dir' from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb:542:in `rm_r' from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb:534:in `each' from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb:534:in `rm_r' from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb:558:in `rm_rf' from test.rb:8 Steve