The order of the specification of the SUBDIRS in 4.2 uucp is important in the the character string pointer array "prefix" in the file subdir.c. The creation, modification, or access times of these directories is irrelevant. -- Bill Sebok Princeton University, Astrophysics {allegra,akgua,burl,cbosgd,decvax,ihnp4,noao,princeton,vax135}!astrovax!wls