Richard> I taper no longer supported or is there an updated package that Richard> includes it? I kind of liked it. It is orphaned. If you really like taper, you could maintain it. There have been new upstream releases. :-) As for tape backups, we have "tob" which most people who tried it seem to be rather happy with, your's truly included. -- Dirk Eddelb"uttel http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/~edd