I apologise for the delay...I had to wait for my employer to give me permission to work on this in my free time. The CL-PPCRE RPM is available at: http://yum.octopodial-chrome.com/11/RPMS/noarch/cl-ppcre-2.0.1-1.fc10.noarch... Anyone who wishes to keep up-to-date on releases as they occur is invited to install the octopodial-chrome RPM available in the same location; this file will add the signing key used for these RPMs as well as a Yum repository so that you'll always have the latest and great. Many other Lisp libraries are available at the same location. -- Robert Uhl <http://public.xdi.org/=ruhl> Exodus will never disconnect a spammer. By the time the complaints reach a level adequate to persuade them, the small-arms fire will prevent their admins from reaching the servers --clifto, in nanae