case $CONFIG in '') . config.sh ;; esac echo "Extracting newsnews (with variable substitutions)" cat >newsnews <h in the middle of a multi-character command will list escape substitutions. * Typing a space to any prompt means to do the normal thing. You could spend all day reading news and never hit anything but the space bar. This particular message comes from $rnlib/newsnews. You will only see it once. You news administrator should feel free to substitute his or her own message whenever something new happens to rn, and then the file will again be displayed, just once for each person. Larry Wall sdcrdcf!lwall !GROK!THIS! $eunicefix newsnews