Timothy Luoma wrote: > >does > > file .tcshrc > >show 'ASCII'? That's what my .zshenv and .bash_profile are listed as. > >TjL Okay, I resaved it as ASCII, and got; 11:47pm ~ % file .tcshrc .tcshrc: ASCII text 11:47pm ~ % all right, now i have implicitcd back 11:49pm ~ % /var/vm 11:49pm vm % So, it looks like the main issue is the somewhat trivial motd, maybe that's in Unicode also. i'll check it out. brian s