Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: <snip> > Leaving out the '\' will cause the Shell to expand the '*' in the > context of the current directory, which is almost certainly *not* what > you want. as i would have thought. until i tried without. > Use the '\', Luke :-) luke knows better. check my appending post. -- tc,hago. g . in a free world without fences, who needs gates.