Not true, Alan. New style UNIX-domain addresses have AT MOST 1 @ in them, eg, m y address would be: [log in to unmask] rather than the more conventional ..!node!node!node!user syntax. Fortunately, t his domain-base addressing is spreading, so soon we may not have to deal with t his path crap for too much longer (chorus of amens!) Dave ---------- Thus in the winter stands the lonely tree, Nor knows what birds have vanished one by one, Yet knows its boughs more silent than before; I cannot say what loves have come and gone; I only know that summer sang in me A little while, that in me sings no more. -- Edna St. Vincent-Millay, "What Lips My Lips Have Kissed" ---------- ****************************************************************************** BITNET: 556@OREGON1 | Work: (503) 686-4394 ARPA : [log in to unmask] | Play: (503) 485-9036 CSNET : [log in to unmask] | Home: (503) 485-8459 UUCP : ...tektronix!uoregon!oregon2!oregon1!556 (or) | (old) : ...tektronix!uoregon!chemstor!boyes | : [log in to unmask] (new domain style) | : [log in to unmask] | ICBM : The mothers can darn well find me on their own! | ******************************************************************************