Hi! > The `echo -n` behavior is not in POSIX and not all shells support it. > Use the portable `printf` func as defined by POSIX. Thanks, applied. Sorry for the delay. Have a nice fortnight -- Martin `MJ' Mares <mj@xxxxxx> http://mj.ucw.cz/ Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Earth "Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it." -- D.E.K.