In article <15845 at bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> jik at athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens) writes: > Also, I fail to see how an alias is first going to delete a file, > and *then* going to copy it to your NFS directory. Open the file, unlink the file, cat the file to the new link, change the modes of the new link. Even csh can do it. (grin) ---Dan