On Sun, 3 Mar 2002, Angus D Madden wrote: >Does anyone know a of utility to check if a symbolic link is valid? You may want to check out a program called readlink. Its probably already on your system. IIRC, its part of the texmf distro. Cameron Kerr -- cameron.kerr@paradise.net.nz http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/~cameronk/