On Wed, 23 Aug 2000, Matt Swift wrote: > Another possibility is to change the way tramp parses the output of > ls to accommodate this situation. Tramp doesn't parse that output, dired does. See the variable dired-move-to-filename-regexp. You might be able to see the spot where it expects a space and four digits for the year, as in ` 1999'. If you allow four digits and a space, too, as in `1999 ', then Bob should be your uncle. A number of people running Emacs on AIX (maybe other Unices) have also reported this problem when running dired natively. kai -- I like BOTH kinds of music.