I did exactly that - ln -s printf gprintf 
and life is better. 

Just checked another install and it has the same issue.

Obviously there is something wrong in the 8.2 distro,

Jim Tarvid

On Tuesday 09 July 2002 07:08 am, you wrote:
> Jim,
>
>    I believe that gprintf and printf can be interchanged ... See this
> thread here http://www.sgmltools.org/todo/85.txt  from somebody with the
> opposite problem.  Could it be a matter of ln -s printf gprintf ?
>
> James
>
> On Tue, 9 Jul 2002 13:03:55 -0400
> phoenix <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said with temporary authority
>
> > gprintf is missing
> > [root@horace init.d]# locate gprintf
> > [root@horace init.d]#
> >
> > [phoenix@horace phoenix]$ gprintf "Hi"
> > bash: gprintf: command not found
> >
> > [root@horace root]# urpmf gprintf
> > [root@horace root]#
> >
> > I've worked around this before but I can't remember how.
> >
> > Jim Tarvid

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