At 08:51 18/05/2004 -0700, you wrote: >I had opened the .bash_profile in word at some point. Despite that >it was saved as text only, word must do something to the >formatting. Resaving my .bash_profile in vi (a text editor) solved >the problem for me. >Good luck! >Heather Many thanks, Heather. In earlier versions of Word (eg. Word for Office 97) on the odd occasion that I have used it for text editing, I haven't found subsequent issues. Maybe your version of Word is later, in which case that tip may come in handy in other contexts (such as Windows .bat file editing.) Always something to learn, eh? Kind regards, Denis