to many other From the top of my local repo, I performed the following: grep -rn "\\\n\\\r" . | grep printf | grep -v sprintf The results are limited to a handful of modules: applications/gtk3-tqt-engine applications/kcmldap applications/kcmldapcontroller applications/kcmldapmanager applications/kgtk-qt3 applications/knetworkmanager8 applications/knetworkmanager9 applications/koffice applications/qt4-tqt-theme-engine applications/smartcardauth libraries/libtdeldap tdelibs/tderandr tdenetwork/wifi/kcmwifi tdepim/tderesources/caldav tdepim/tderesources/carddav I did not want to interfere with any additional work you were doing, which is why I asked rather than start patching. :-) Darrell