In article <8292 at star.cs.vu.nl> maart at cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath) writes: > 1) `ps' will show something like this - > PID TT STAT TIME COMMAND > 5393 p1 R 0:00 sh - /dev/fd/3 I'd expect the first argument to be mangled into the program name. This would also solve your second problem. ---Dan