It was Oct 1, 2000, 02:41, when Jose keyboarded: >Under the command line the command ls sometimes brings information onto the >screen which doesn't fit on it. Funny as it might seem, even the ls --help >command does the same, so I can never get to see all the information. I >tried lsmore and lsless (out of reading something about it long ago) but >it didn't work. Can any one shed some light? Best then is to pipe it through more: ls --help | more Paul -- Yesterday it worked. Today nothing is working. Windows is like that. http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 - Registered Linux User 174403 -=PINE 4.21 on Linux Mandrake 7.1=-