>> "REHE" == Richard E Hawkins Esq <hawk@eyry.econ.iastate.edu> writes: REHE> dir takes three letters to accomplish "ls". Never trust a REHE> command that can't be typed in two letters . . . mkdir and rmdir ? I always wondered about them. To the original poster: There is a DOS/Windows to Linux HowTo which pretty good explains some differences in concepts and commands. YOu have filepermissions now :-) www.linux.org has a link to it. Ciao, Martin