I have two Linux installations, one Redhat Enterprise Linux and the other CentOS. Neither has help2man available natively. I found help2man on the gno.org ftp site. It requires locale::gettext . I found this on the cpan site. For this package I ran "perl Makefile.PL". This generated Makefile. When I typed "make", this file gave the error message "Please specify prototyping behavioo for gettext.xs." What is required next? I hope we can work this out, so that the manuals don't have to be generated manually. thanks, John -- My websites: http://www.godtouches.org http://www.jjb-software.com Location: Madison, WI, USA For a description of the software and to download it go to http://www.jjb-software.com