cpcahil at virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill) errs, so I just have to point out: > while [ ! -z "x$1" ] but on the test(1) man page: -z s1 true if the length of string s1 is zero. So the "while" will always be "! false" == "true". -- Dan Jacobson +1-708-979-6364 danj1 at ihlpa.ATT.COM