Thank you both so very much for your quick and helpful responses on this. I plan on informing RedHat (as Bob suggested). I have since tried the test on other linux and linux-like systems (I am a consultant and have access to several linux/cygwin systems at client sites) and found the problem to be fairly common.
So I am now thinking seriously of upgrading my own linux box to a newer version of linux. Thanks again. Ray _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
