It is also appears to be mishandled by /bin/sh on System V Rel 2.2. When I try ``sh -c 'echo $*' a b c d'' on System V, it also produces ``b c d''. So 4.3 is probably not the original culprit. V 2.2 sh has been reworked to look like C rather than Steve Bourne's original pseudo Algol. Gary..