Hi, martin f krafft wrote: > I will have to think about the premature EOF.
It's a file. Files don't have "premature" EOFs, so you need some sort of lock, which in turn requires a (non-shell ;-) script. In other words, this rapidly approaches the complexity of apt-proxy-or-whatever. -- Matthias Urlichs | {M:U} IT Design @ m-u-it.de | [EMAIL PROTECTED]