Tim wrote: > Thanks, most informative... I keep meaning to look into some of these > things, but don't seem to get around to it. For instance, the output of > some commands isn't described. It's obvious what some of the columns > refer to in the output from ls (file names, permissions, etc.), but > there's a few things in there I hadn't figured out. info ls or pinfo ls dd should give you more information. (info is a GNU documentation format. pinfo is a rather more user-friendly version: you may have to install this). Hope this helps, James. -- E-mail address: james | The grass is always greener on the other side of @westexe.demon.co.uk | the sunglasses.