cache-init, cache-update, find-updated and portindex are a set of perl scripts built around the common core of the FreeBSD::Portindex modules. Their use is to generate and maintain the ports INDEX or INDEX-5 files speedily and efficiently. Ultimately they work in a very similar way to the standard make index command, except that the FreeBSD::Portindex tools keep a cache of the make describe output from each port, and can update that cached data incrementally as the ports tree itself is updated. WWW: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/portindex/ - Matthew Seaman