hi, i had it all of the time! i did not realize that i needed the -a switch with ls so i thought that i did not have it. thanks for the help. randy On Mon, 11 Jun 2001, Geoff Shang wrote: > Hi: > > mailcapstuff.tar.gz is just a regular tar.gz file, it's not a slackware tgz > package (I wish they'd picked some other file extention even if they'd kept > the same format). You just unpack it in your home directory and you're > set. Note that you'll probably want to look at .mailcap in particular to > check that the programs you want used are being called. > > Oh yeah the 2 files are .mailcap and .mime.types (note the leading dot). > You have to use the -a switch to ls for these to show up in regular > directory listings. > > Geoff. > > > -- > Geoff Shang <gshang10 at scu.edu.au> > ICQ number 43634701 > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > >