Hi, On Mon, 5 Feb 2001, cls/cs wrote: > ...guessing here, but if you > > mv -gzip foo (foo being some other name not beginning with "-") > > and then > > rm foo > > does that work? mv has the same problem as rm. It thinks that -g is an option. But thank you for your prompt reply. I was already preparing for a little bit disturbed sleep this night. Fortunately the problem is solved now. Regards, Kerstin -- kerstin.hoef-emden@uni-koeln.de