Hi I've packaged since, a GPL'd tail(1)-like utility that saves state information between invocations. For more info, check out ftp://jade.cs.uct.ac.za/pub/since-0.1.tar.gz If there are no objections, I'll upload it to master in a few days. -mj -- Michael-John Turner | http://www.edr.uct.ac.za/~mj/ mj@phantom.eri.uct.ac.za | Linux @ UCT -> http://www.leg.uct.ac.za/ mj@debian.org, mj@icon.co.za | PGP key via mail, WWW or finger @phantom