Make sure the filespec is enclosed in quotes if it includes blanks.
The second rule should not be necessary.

..Paul
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At 01:10 PM 6/9/98 -0700, Joel Fuhrman wrote:
At 01:10 PM 6/9/98 -0700, Joel Fuhrman wrote:
>On an NT client I am tring to exclude all Internet Explorer files in and
>below the system-owned directories "Temporary Internet Files".  My
>statements in c:\win32app\ibm\adsm\baclient\dsm.opt are:
>
>Exclude *:\...\Temporary Internet Files\*.*
>Exclude *:\...\Temporary Internet Files\...\*.*
>
>The files were backed up and they are not marked with a red x (like other
>excluded files). I have tried using all upper case and all lower case for
>the directory name with no successes.  What do I have wrong?
>