We just had a major disk crash, so I am stuck using emacs-19.16, but I suspect this is a problem with efs-1.6. The minibuffer does not quote VMS dollar signs properly when doing a find-file in a VMS directory which happens not to be under ~/. Sandy said he had fixed this problem, so maybe it is my obselete version of emacs. Can anyone with 19.22 confirm? Thanks. jpm