>>>>> "D" == Daniel Berger <Daniel.Berger / qwest.com> writes: D> I'm not going to worry too much about this one. I'm more worried about the D> assumption that all flavors of Unix have "install-sh". They don't. moulon% tar ztvf ruby-1.8.4-preview2.tar.gz ruby-1.8.4/install-sh -rw-r--r-- matz/matz 0 1999-08-13 07:45:06 ruby-1.8.4/install-sh moulon% it don't like empty file ? Guy Decoux