hola, there's a new "major catagory" in 2.4.20: "library routines". under that, there are two options: compression and decompression support for zlib. no help files for it. anyone know what kernel-space libz style support is for? is the kernel now compressing portions of itself on the fly or something zany like that? pete -- Fingerprint: B9F1 6CF3 47C4 7CD8 D33E 70A9 A3B9 1945 67EA 951D