Peter> Adrian Aichner wrote: Matthew> COMPLETE! But who the hell screwed up the references to >> Matthew, don't you think you're a bit offensive in your choice of >> language? Peter> ^^^^ Peter> Now look who's talking dirty ! To answer in your favorite language: warn "I'll be darned" if ("-f ..." eq "-f..."); :-) Peter> --peter(a)access.com.au -- Peter G. Martin, Peter> Tech writer, Perl Thingy-er, pmartin1(a)bigpond.net.au -- Adrian Aichner <adrian(a)xemacs.org&gt;, http://www.xemacs.org