For any interested parties, preliminary Debian packages of nhc98 are available from: http://people.debian.org/~bfulgham/nhc98 Note that they must be installed using "--force-overwrite" since the installation script incorrectly attempts to include all manpages in every package. This will be fixed in a future update, but the packages are otherwise fine as far as I can tell. 'hi' works correctly in this binary package. Thanks, -Brent