"ls" originally came from the Multics operating system and stood for= =20 "list segments". Unix was written (in part) as an effort to simplify Mult= ics=20 and, hence, some of the command names were inherited. I simply think of "ls" as a funny spelling of "list" and even though= this=20 is inaccurate, it helps me get the job done. For Kurt Granroth: Cool, I didn't know Konqueror was that smart. The interface is=20 immeasurably better than info's which I can never remember, anyway. I've=20 hereby been converted from "info" to "konqueror". My sincere thanks for the tip! --=20 Ed Skinner, ed@flat5.net, http://www.flat5.net/