Acmcl2.413 net.bugs.4bsd utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!ihnss!wheps!zeppo!harpo!esquire!cmcl2!salkind Wed Mar 31 01:53:18 1982 nami misfeature retraction Looks like I blew it. In the "The Unix Time-Sharing System" paper it says "As another limiting case, the null file name refers to the current directory." Not what I expected but you can't argue with THE source. How embarrassing! Thanks to rabbit!ark and research!dmr for pointing this out to me. Lou Salkind cmcl2!salkind