Hi folks: Its too late at night, and I shouldn't be mucking with scripts. ... I realize now that my previous email was in error ... and now realize what is actually happening when passing a long list to ./runme ... its just disconcerting to see patches that I don't want in the "already applied" list that ./runme spits up when running in batch mode ... I can now see that the $EXCLUDED are copied to $SEEN and listed in already applied list because of that ... perhaps we could put a *bypassed* tag in there so that others don't get as confused as I..... (hangs head in shame) Alistair Tonner Alistair@nerdnet.ca (Actually ... since I just flipped email addys on the mailing list ... this message migh show up before the one of which I speak.....)