Hello Oswald, On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 16:56, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: > what exactly is the second hunk (which is inside an awk script) supposed > to do? The extra 'x's are a bashism. I wasn't sure if they would be useful here. I suppose you can just ignore that hunk. Leonard. -- mount -t life -o ro /dev/dna /genetic/research