In article <15724 at smoke.brl.mil> gwyn at smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) writes: No! $ empty: empty:: not found $ What shell are you using here? We're talking about csh, remember? Both these commands: foo: > filename foo: work in csh under SunOS 4.1 and Umax 4.3. -- Joe Wells <jbw at cs.bu.edu>