Dear Krzysztof, >> ... it is dangerous to do >> cd /tmp; gs any.ps > > What is in the file "any.ps"? > You are exposed ... without feeding *anything* to Ghostscript ... Yes, precisely: that is why I called it any.ps. Cheers, Paul Paul Szabo psz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au/u/psz/ School of Mathematics and Statistics University of Sydney Australia