Ooh, that sounds clever... but yeah, you're right, just upgrading the version makes more sense. I've heard a rumour that the next version of gzip (some unknown time in the future) will use these techniques as well, for whatever that's worth... -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to debian-devel-request@lists.debian.org . Trouble? e-mail to templin@bucknell.edu .