Gentlefolks, Ok, after poking at makeman on Redhat 6.x, there are two gotchas; all the rest seem sane: 1. Make sure to force it to use ksh: "#!/bin/ksh" as line 1. 2. Ispell, which replaces 'spell', requires the input to be from stdin, at least if just invoked as 'spell'. So around line 567 or so, the line $DEFSPELL $MANNAME.$SECNNAME.mp | $PAGER becomes $DEFSPELL < $MANNAME.$SECNNAME.mp | $PAGER -- Dave "Hey, c'mon, it's over 10 years old..." Ihnat [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.