Hi, for those who are adventuresome may have a look at the package shells/bash43 as a replacement for the bash in Base:System/bash and its link shells/bash. There *are* changes, therefore I'd like to here some more reports and experiences before I replace the bash 4.3 and the corresponding readline libary 6.2. Werner -- "Having a smoking section in a restaurant is like having a peeing section in a swimming pool." -- Edward Burr