Hi Oleg, I'm very sorry, but I obviously missed a crucial point here: the shell _searches_ the PATH for an executable file to be sourced. I'm still not convinced about the need for (and security of) such a feature, however.. But it's a design choice, and I'll respect it. Just have to take care to prepend relative pathnames from the commandline/config with a "./" in my scripts. I don't expect to be bothering you again with this one;) Bill -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe dash" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html