Hi, since I did run into this now several times: is it possible to change mkgmap in a way that it exits in error cases with something else than 0? This would make error checking and handling much easier, you wouldn't need to parse always the output to guess if an error did happend or not. Thorsten -- Thorsten Kukuk, Project Manager/Release Manager SLES SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, D-90409 Nuernberg GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg)