According to the docs, if you stat a symlink, you will get information for the target file, and lstat works on symlinks...
I'm confused. How do you determine if a file is a symlink to begin with? TIA richf -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>