This behaviour has long been considered a bug in the shell by many. But unfortunately it's too late to change it for the standard shell.
Apparently in plan9 (unix's "successor") the standard shell 'rc' does the right thing. You can get a rc workalike called 'es' for Unix/linux. http://people.cs.uchicago.edu/~csdayton/software/ Matt -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
