That line with the description has to be on one line. This patch should fix that, a problem in a parser.add_option, and the Gmail inserted "Show quoted text". Dan --- pacman-lib.orig/scripts/rankmirrors 2006-12-08 17:07:34.000000000 -0500 +++ pacman-lib/scripts/rankmirrors 2006-12-08 17:35:09.000000000 -0500 @@ -25,16 +25,14 @@ def createOptParser(): usage = "usage: %prog [options] MIRRORFILE" - description = "Ranks pacman mirrors by their connection and -opening speed. Pacman mirror files are located in /etc/pacman.d/." + description = "Ranks pacman mirrors by their connection and opening speed. Pacman mirror files are located in /etc/pacman.d/." parser = OptionParser(usage=usage,description=description) parser.add_option("-f", "--formatted", action="store_true", - dest = "formatted", default=False, help="output in mirror -file format") + dest = "formatted", default=False, + help="output in mirror file format") parser.add_option("-n", dest="num", default=0, help="number of servers to output, 0 for all") parser.add_option("-v", "--verbose", action="store_true", dest="verbose", -- Show quoted text - default=False, help="be verbose in output") return parser