> What are the valid charactes for the IFS variable? In particular, is '\0' a > valid one?
Technically, yes, but in practice it's not useful. There are too many things represented as C strings to make NUL work right. Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU c...@case.edu http://tiswww.tis.case.edu/~chet/