So it's creating the parker.fo file but (a) not in the location you 
expect it and (b) it won't overwrite if there's one already there.

As far as (a) goes, that does sound like a path problem.  c:\temp is the 
default for many programs when no path is specified.  Is there anywhere 
in the batch file(s) that you can specify the path for the output file 
parker.fo ?  If so, try specifying the full path as 
C:\pubclass\documents\parker.fo.  If not, you might try adding 
C:\pubclass\documents to your PATH environmental variable and see what 
that does.

As far as (b) goes, if that's always been the way you've had to do it, 
then that sounds like business as usual and not an error.

Alas, I don't have any ideas about the UTF-8 error though...

Michele

-----Original Message-----
From: Susan Hamburger

<snip>
Once I moved the parker.fo from C:\temp and ran Saxon (jvm) again, the
parker.fo popped up on my screen in NoteTabPro--but still saved in the
C:\temp space rather than pubclass\documents--(I'd forgotten that you
have to delete the old FO document before trying to create a new one)
but I still get the above error message about the UTF-8.
</snip>