On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 08:48:25AM -0500, Wathen, Metherion wrote: > name. it's like mc or the system knows the correct name it just doesnt > display it. kinda weird, huh. I haven't used mc in quite a while, but as I recall that's exactly what it does - if the filename is too long to fit in the display it replaces the middle with a tilde. -- Michael Heironimus