On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 03:20:48PM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > Well, systems where ls -ld behaves differently aren't all that > uncommon. For instance, on some AFS installations you'll get only > three bits of permission instead of the usual nine. Yikes! Ok, I stand corrected. Of course, the people who wrote those incompatible ls's should be <nasty punishment deleted>; "-rwxrwxrwx" format output *absolutely* goes back to V6. -- | | /\ |-_|/ > Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont. erics@xxxxxxxxxxxx | | / It must be said that they would have sounded better if the singer wouldn't throw his fellow band members to the ground and toss the drum kit around during songs. - Patrick Lenneau