While I think about it, could someone fix cp (in applications/bin/gnu/), so that the -p switch ("preserve attributes if possible"), also copies the bfs attributes ? that would be neat. (or maybe by default even ?) try to make the fix less intrusive you can and make sure you #ifdef __BEOS__ ... #endif so we can submit the changes back to the main GNU tree. The first to reply takes it. :-) François.