Package: aces3 Version: 3.0.6-1 Severity: minor mba at hartree:/tmp/aces3$ LANG=C grep sio job.out Binary file job.out matches mba at hartree:/tmp/aces3$ This is rather annoying as it makes grepping etc. more difficult. Seems like lines like the following are the culprit: Next SIAL program: scf_aguess.sio ^@ Michael