Bruce Sass writes: > The result is still human readable and editable with any text editor, if > you know the codes. The "special dpkg editor" would just make life > easier for those not wanting to look up or learn any codes. Ok, but I'm not sure that it would be significantly faster then a well-designed text database. -- John Hasler john@dhh.gt.org (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI