copying files

[Scott P Nichols]

OK, let me restate my question, as none of the answers 
I recieved last time worked...

Here is a listing of my home directory...
(I use csh)  

% ls -la

total 92
drwxr-xr-x 10 nichols      1024 Dec  4 16:52 .
drwxr-xr-x312 root         6144 Nov 25 17:14 ..
-rw-------  1 nichols      1837 Dec  4 09:49 .cshrc
drwx------  2 nichols      1024 Dec  4 16:42 .elm
-rwxr--r--  1 nichols         0 Oct 19 01:35 .hushlogin
-rw-r--r--  1 nichols        26 Dec  1 14:30 .informrc
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> other .files excluded <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
drwx------  2 nichols      1024 Dec  4 08:37 Mail
drwx------  5 nichols      1024 Dec  2 18:59 News
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> other directories excluded <<<<<<<<<<<<<<

Do any of you UNIX wizards know how to even list all of
the names of the files which begin '.' (besides, of course
the files in the root (second line of list) 

When I type...                I get...
______________                ________

ls .*                         all of the dot files, then all files
                              in my directory and the previous.

ls .**                        all of the dot files, then all files
                              from the previous directory

ls * .???                     all files in all of my directories

Any other suggestions?

Scott
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