That did the trick! Thanks Mark. jack >Hi Jack, > >Did you make symbolic links or use the Finder's own Mac alias mechanism? >If it was the latter then it creates rather strange files that normal >unix commands can't cope with. If you try using symbolic links instead >(using "ln -s") then everything should work fine. I suspect that it is this >if you are only having the problem on a Mac. > >Glad to hear that the other problem is resolved (or non-existent!) >:) > >All the best, > Mark