Nope, done that, still the same errors. Have another person, whom is trying to figure this out as well, in fact, he thinks, something in my shell is mess up..
<snip> > <foofile.txt> Wow, your results are completely different. When the shell trys to read the here-document, it gets the garbage. So the bug is in the shell reading the doc. How odd. What locale setting do you use? ((US English)) / And what keyboard setting etc... A ======================================= With that in mind, I very confused, on what he_l is going, since I wipe and re-installed twice. is a corrupt file on MacOS install disk? grasping at straws. Richard
