Well, looks like a feature or a bug. :)) $ ls -hog CD0.dat
-rw-r--r-- 1 0 Jun 28 14:46 CD0.dat (minus r; w minus; r minus; minus r; minus minus) and now ... $ ls -hog CD0.dat | od -x 722d 2d77 2d72 722d .... Definitely wrong byte order. In human readable format: (r minus; minus w; minus r; r minus; minus minus) Exactly the other way round. Can that be tweaked somehow? Well, I cannot believe this is really intention ... (OS Win2000 + sp4) -Andreas _________________________________________________________________________ Mit der Gruppen-SMS von WEB.DE FreeMail können Sie eine SMS an alle Freunde gleichzeitig schicken: http://freemail.web.de/features/?mc=021179 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/