On Sun, 16 Mar 2003 22:04:40 -0500 ronin2@bellatlantic.net wrote: > the phrase "gimp gif" is not a regular expression. What happened here > is that apt-cache searched for the pattern "gimp" and stopped after it > saw the space. It didn't even see "gif". Further, it looked for the pattern g-i-m-p<space>, so it didn't see g-i-m-p-<some other character besides space>. Kevin