Hi Mark -- You asked: > because I'd said: > >It would be helpful if you could tell us what version of the packages > >you have installed. For example, if you would run this commands: > > > > dpkg -l *tex* > > I noticed that this doesn't work under tcsh, but does work under > bash. Is there a difference between how the * character is treated > under the two shells?
What I'd written was actually not right for either shell. I should have written: dpkg -l "*tex*" The problem is that without the quotes, the shell expands the argument first, before handing it to dpkg. If there's a file in your current directory with a name that matches *tex*, then that file, and only that file, is fed to dpkg. This is not what's intended of course. So I tried the correct usage (with the quotes) under tcsh and it worked fine. Cheers, Susan