Dotan Cohen: >>> [dotancohen@localhost .AbiSuite]$ ls -al >>> total 36 >>> drwx------ 2 dotancohen dotancohen 4096 פבר 9 02:42 . >>> drwx------ 49 dotancohen dotancohen 4096 פבר 9 02:42 .. >>> -rw-rw-r-- 1 dotancohen dotancohen 16076 פבר 9 03:04 AbiWord.Prose arefile Aaron Konstam: > Another mystery is how you did a ls -al and did not get entries for . and .. They did. They're the first two lines, they've just got some non-ASCII (פבר) characters in front of the dots. I'm presuming that they're the date's month, in Dotan's locale. -- (This PC runs FC4, my others FC5 & FC6, in case that's important to the thread) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.