| > CERT once recommended me to use the following set of filtered | > characters "\"*&|$;'\\=?<>!()\n{}[]^`" | | I don't quite understand what you mean. The list I quoted is | characters that cleanstrcpy() _is_ willing to copy. Why does this always happen to me? :-( Ok, I thought I knew what was happening, and didn't read your mail carefully enough. My fault - core dumped. /Christian