In reference to a message from Glenn McGrath, dated Oct 05: > Attached is a little shell script i wrote that does most of what the > real dpkg-deb does. very cool! a few questions: what's control and nl? does it work with busybox? can you check this into cvs some place? :-) randolph -- Debian Developer <tausq@debian.org> http://www.TauSq.org/