I've been keeping Sid pretty much up to date. Just now, Dec 31 15:20 EST, "locals conflicts with base-config", and base-config is going to be removed. Let's just say I did not proceed. "base-config" is rather an important package, isn't it? Anyone else see this problem? Did I miss a discussion of the issue? Curt- -- September 11th, 2001 The proudest day for gun control and central planning advocates in American history