On Tuesday 04 December 2001 01:09 pm, you wrote: > The 'rm' only asked me if i wanted to delete aaaa and bbbb, as it should. > The really interesting thing that I found is that ls and ls-l never showed > me the .abcd file. ls -a will show those. -- Richard L Proctor Krystal Computer Services PC Repairs & Up-grades www.krycom.com 480-699-3098