Dear friends: My thanks to a number of people who helped me figure this out. I have already mentioned their names in earlier messages. So let me in this message thank Ramon Gandia for figuring out the last step. I needed to comment out a line in /etc/bachrc and another in ~/bash_profile which had to do with "alias ls='ls -- color. Thanks again to everyone. Benjamin -- Benjamin and Anna Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net
