drv> The output of `configure --help' should stay clear and drv> consise. Stay? You consider the prepatch version "concise"? Haw!! drv> You could all the same put the literature in a text file, and drv> state its existence at the beginning of configure's drv> output. That would be a better solution IMO. Not me; I use configure --usage often. But you're welcome to do it. Also, for inclusion in INSTALL, configure.usage probably should expand by 25--50%. It's far too terse (!) for a README-style document. -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN My nostalgia for Icon makes me forget about any of the bad things. I don't have much nostalgia for Perl, so its faults I remember. Scott Gilbert c.l.py