Hi, I just discovered that we have Octave's NEWS file under /usr/share/octave/3.0.1/ and under /usr/share/doc/octave3.0. >From the changelog: 2007-01-24 John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> * octMakefile.in (install): Install NEWS file. (uninstall): Remove it. Should we keep the file there? Thomas