On Friday, July 18, 2003, at 01:50 am, John Griffin wrote: > Well I typed it properly and got the following: > > johngrif% open /etc/rc.common > 2003-07-17 20:44:23.618 open[542] LSOpenFromURLSpec() returned -10814 > for > application (null) path /etc/rc.common. > 2003-07-17 20:44:23.620 open[542] Couldn't open file: /etc/rc.common > [John-Griffins-Computer:~] johngrif% > open is a shell command used in opening urls files etc... you can type "man open" to get the man pages for it. try using "man -e /etc/rc.common". On my system that will invoke Textedit with the file, although if you do not have privileges you may nor be able to save the file back after editing. -- Tarik Bilgin Opalblue tarik at opalblue.com