Ray Stevens ([log in to unmask]) wrote: : manuals, no POSIX manuals are on the CDROM Some technical difficulties are slowing progress on this issue. : Makes it tough to utilize the shell and utilities when you have no details of HOW to use : them.... From within the shell, use the 'man command_name' command to get _all_ the information available about the command. The man pages are identical to the manuals. Steve