Just out of curiosity I did a google search for slackware libc5 and the .tgz file is still around; you may have said that but i didn't save the message so i'm not sure. Whether there'd be problems putting it on your system I can't say but apparently old packages never die; they just get put out to pasture. It just depends on how often the attic gets cleaned out. I say this because the url I found for libc5 in slackware had both the word pasture and the word attic in it! -- Cheryl