In OS X, pathnames have two distinct syntaxes. The GUI uses the pre-X syntax, in which a pathname begins with a volume name and the separator is `:', as in Macintosh HD:Users:ham:Documents:whatever.hs In the Darwin (i.e., unix) command-line "underworld", a pathname begins with /Volumes, spaces are escaped with `\', and the separator is `/', as in /Volumes/Macintosh\ HD/Users/ham/Documents/whatever.hs When you drag a file icon onto the command line, Terminal does the right thing-- it converts the pathname from the GUI syntax to the Darwin syntax, and utilities such as more work just as they should. Hugs, however, doesn't do so well. For example, Prelude> :l /Volumes/Macintosh\ HD/Users/ham/Documents/whatever.hs Reading file "/Volumes/Macintosh\": ERROR "/Volumes/Macintosh\" - Unable to open file "/Volumes/Macintosh\" Quoting the pathname changes the problem, but doesn't cure it: Prelude> :l "/Volumes/Macintosh\ HD/Users/ham/Documents/whatever.hs" ERROR - Missing `\' terminating string literal gap Apparently what's confusing Hugs is the `\', because removing it cures the problem: Prelude> :l "/Volumes/Macintosh HD/Users/ham/Documents/whatever.hs" Reading file "/Volumes/Macintosh HD/Users/ham/Documents/whatever.hs": Is this problem unavoidable, or is it just an oversight? Thanks, --Ham -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Hamilton Richards Department of Computer Sciences Senior Lecturer Mail Code C0500 512-471-9525 The University of Texas at Austin Taylor Hall 5.138 Austin, Texas 78712-1188 ham@cs.utexas.edu hrichrds@swbell.net ------------------------------------------------------------------