Hi, I've observed this on my i386 box: -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.2M Jan 20 11:29 /lib/libc-2.3.2.so But on Alpha: -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 18M Apr 22 18:22 /lib/libc-2.3.2.so Why this more than tenfold discrepency? -- John