Hello. My patch for allow recursive variable inderection in arith and simplify allow $(( )). Originaly from my arith in busybox Before patch: $ a=b b=2; echo $((a)) dash: 1: Illegal number: b After patch: $ a=b b=2; echo $((a)) 2 a=b b="a*2"; echo $((a)) ./dash: 4: arithmetic expression: expression recursion loop detected: "a" --w vodz