Well! That's pretty extreme! Rejecting MIME content type of Text/html! A little paranoid are we? At any rate - here is a straight text version of my question (with a spelling correction to boot!). Folks, At several points in my scan of the GCC installation documentation there are references to target specs such as "i386-redhat-linux" or "alpha*-*-*". Looking at the configure script for several packages there seems to be a standard syntax for this string. Is this syntax documented anywhere? Thanks Dave Braun BTW - when I tried including the bounce letter so you could see what was happening to cause the initial bounce your bounced it again claiming I was a spammer - I'm not but now I can't tell you why! If you'd like to see the second bounce I can zip it up and send it too you. d