Hi,

> output is being written to
> c:/Documents%20and%Settings/User/My%20Documents/ If that directory
> doesn't exist it makes a new one.

I can't see any viruses at work but encoding problems. Ad hoc I can't explain
what exactly makes XP interpret the "%20" as string instead of a character
representation but I remember that plus signs in the places of spaces should
work well enough. So the path given to the parser should look like that:

c:/Documents+and+Settings/User/My+Documents/

Hope that works, Torsten

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Torsten Schassan (Projekt Handschriftendatenbank/MASTER)
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