I tried this on another system, which was ostensibly running the same version of fileutils, and it worked "normally". Perhaps this odd behavior is caused in some way by the fact that I'm running Debian's unstable distribution. I will investigate further along these lines. Sorry for any confusion I may have caused you. -- Ben Slusky | "Looks like yet another megatrend [EMAIL PROTECTED] | has come and gone without affecting "will program for food" | me in any way whatsoever." PGP keyID ADA44B3B | www.theonion.com _______________________________________________ Bug-fileutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-fileutils