This is binary of bash 1.10, patched with 8 bit patches supplied by Bjorn Gronvall (bg@nada.kth.se). To my knowledge there are no similar patches for newer bashes. Bash 1.13 will apparently be 8 bit clean without any patches. But if you need to use e.g. iso8859-1 *now* to get your national characters, this binary should work alright. I have used this patched version a long time in non-linux machines without problems. You need to have set use-meta-bit Off in your ~/.inputrc to enable 8 bit cleanness. Initially I didn't plan to publish this binary, so it has some of my preferences hard-coded. It was compiled with -O3 -m486, so it's slightly bigger than standard bash 1.12. I don't know how -m486 binaries behave in 80386 machines, but I suspect there should be no problems. Vi-mode is not included, since I don't use it and it takes some space. Bash was compiled with gcc 2.2.2d7, lib 4.1, with jump tables. Kernel was 0.98.5. Janne Himanka (shem@zombie.oulu.fi)