Ack, sure enough, they are status-old and status.yesterday.0, status.yesterday.1.gz, etc. That is what I get for going online with only 1/2 a cup of coffee in me. -- On Sun, 13 Feb 2000, Bruce Sass wrote: > If you have only just done this, and not played with dselect since, > then a > cp /var/lib/dpkg/status{.old,}