>in omvs you use the exclamation mark instead of the pipe symbol. >I know that this is a difference to normal unix systems, therefore >I have mentioned it.
You are being fooled by the code page problem. The pipe symbol IS the usual pipe symbol but this just happens to map to the explamation point when you're running your emulator with the German code page but don't tell the shell (more precisely the LE runtime environment). Peter Hunkeler CREDIT SUISSE ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html

