There are several binaries in text-utils that are leveraged from BSD, which seem to be out of date. ( See http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/b/bsdmainutils/bsdmainutils_6.1.6.tar.gz) Specifically, if I compare the versions in Debian's bsdmainutils to the versions in util-linux-ng, I see that our col and friends have what appears to be better wide-character support, while hexdump and such are behind... Should we merge them, or drop them? or just accept that the two forks are different :-( (I don't like that last option at all..) thoughts? lamont - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux-ng" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html