I've been curious about this for a while now, but never bothered asking anybody. How do you set the 'processor type' that is printed when uname -p is run (or the last field in uname -a)? Is it used for anything other than informative purposes? noah PGP Public Key available at http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/mail.html or by `finger -l frodo@morgul.net`