Ben Scott writes: > Hey, a new one! UUOR! (Useless Use of Redirection.) "cat > /etc/motd" is just as good as "cat < /etc/motd". ;-) Of course, what I wrote in no way involved any combination of cat and redirection. Regards, --kevin -- GnuPG ID: B280F24E God, I loved that Pontiac. alumni.unh.edu!kdc -- Tom Waits