>>>>> "tc" == tony chamberlain <tony.chamberlain@xxxxxxxxx> writes: tc> so he ran fsck and it said something like tc> restore filesystem 1# That's back to the command prompt. tc> I told him to type y. Now his screen output it just tc> y y y y y y y y Well, the "yes" command exists on pretty much all systems and just repeatedly outputs either 'y' or the string you give it. So if he typed "yes" then you'd get an infinite number of lines containing 'y' spewed to the screen. The intent of the 'yes' command is to pipe to something which prompts for input. It just answers 'y' to every such prompt. - J<
