> It's not a bug. the exit status of a command, the "return" of your > function, is limited to the numbers 0-255.
It's 0-128, actually. Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer Live Strong. Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://tiswww.tis.case.edu/~chet/