Harri Salokorpi <hsalokor at ee.oulu.fi> writes: > and : causes namespace problems. : is also a shell meta-character is some situation. In tcsh, I get $ setenv a xxx $ setenv b yyy $ echo $a:$b Bad : modifier in $ ($). $ echo ${a}:${b} xxx:yyy $ echo {xxx} xxx $ echo $a..$b xxx..yyy > I think ellipsis is the safest choice. Metoo. -- Matthieu