On Sat, 2007-12-15 at 16:52 -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote: > On Sat, 2007-12-15 at 22:32 +0000, Paul Smith wrote: > > $ dir -l tent.pdf > > -rw-r----- 1 psmith psmith 95075 2006-12-31 21:25 tent.pdf > > $ke > This is the first time I have seen someone use dir rather than ls in a > *nix environment. This is not a criticism just a indication of surprise. ---- dir of course works on linux but ls doesn't work on Windows unless you've got SFU or cygwin installed sometimes I just forget which I'm using but in case of OP, I suspect that the windows commands are more familiar Craig