It is the Unicode/UTF8 thing again. I have seen almost the same thing in my random signature script, and, as you can see in this message, I've temporarily removed it for lack of time. For the record, the one-liner (perfectly working in RH 7.3) was: set signature="perl -an0777F'\n\s*\n' -e 'print \$F[rand(@F)]' ~/pers_doc/massime|" and only printed one word of the signature. This other version does just nothing: set signature = "perl -e '$/ = \"\n\n\";@A=<>;print "\n$A[int(rand($#A))]"' ~/pers_doc/massime|" This Perl/RH8.0 incompatibility has already surfaced. This thread: http://groups.google.com/groups?dq=&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&th=44f0dd99eab05a5c gives details and some solution. I confess that I didn't check myself, but from what they say there, it looks like it's not covered by the release notes either. IMPORTANT REQUEST TO RED HAT: Of course, I'll gratefully accept any suggestion about how to fix my script, but the real solution would be a page on the web site called "The Perl/RH 8.0 Howto" or something like that. Something like the Postfix/Red Hat documentation, which deals both with general and packaging specific issues. Ciao, Marco Fioretti -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
