On Wed, 24 Apr 2002 07:33:13 -0400 begin Harry G <harrycg at earthlink.net> spewed forth: [snip] > > Dumb question or two; if I intstalled sed from a tgz file, will rpm be > able to find it, and two, what is the command to do an RPM search? no. rpm -qa | grep <filename> Ciao, David A. Bandel -- Focus on the dream, not the competition. -- Nemesis Racing Team motto