In his wisdom RMS decided that people need no man pages when they can use GNU's beautiful info system. Unfortunately, everybody I know greatly prefers man pages. Since GNU actively non-maintains man pages, and inserts text to the effect that you should not be reading them in each man page that they already have, it seems that outside maintenance of man pages for the GNU utilities is required. The fileutils-3.16 man pages are being maintained both at http://www.lightside.ddns.org and at ftp://mail1.bet1.puv.fi/incoming/ by Ragnar Hojland Espinosa and A. Wik, at first independently, later cooperating. The fileutils-3.16 man pages found here have been derived from those in fileutils-3.16-man-0.4.tar.gz (as found on ftp://mail1.bet1.puv.fi/incoming/) by adding information on what POSIX says about these utilities. This is very useful if you have to write scripts that should be portable. Andries