Sorry guys, you really cannot call that a bug. It is a documented *feature*. (really) There are people here who actually use it. If your afraid of booby-traps, there`s always cat/more. Aloke Prabhakar wouldnt-it-be-funny: ...moskvax!kremvax!mcvax!decvax!ucbvax!prabhaka USENET: ...ucbvax!prabhaka ARPANET: prabhaka%ucbarpa at Berkeley