diff --git a/src/support/ChangeLog b/src/support/ChangeLog
index 8f1fd1733a..bac8b9e771 100644
--- a/src/support/ChangeLog
+++ b/src/support/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2002-08-20  John Levon  <levon@movementarian.org>
+
+	* Makefile.am:
+	* fmt.C: remove
+ 
 2002-08-14  Lars Gullik Bjønnes  <larsbj@gullik.net>
 
 	* textutils.h: formatting.
diff --git a/src/support/Makefile.am b/src/support/Makefile.am
index 0f975f6bdb..b392fe7402 100644
--- a/src/support/Makefile.am
+++ b/src/support/Makefile.am
@@ -30,7 +30,6 @@ libsupport_la_SOURCES = \
 	copy.C \
 	filetools.C \
 	filetools.h \
-	fmt.C \
 	forkedcall.C \
 	forkedcall.h \
 	forkedcontr.C \
diff --git a/src/support/fmt.C b/src/support/fmt.C
deleted file mode 100644
index 1e61e3bb32..0000000000
--- a/src/support/fmt.C
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,57 +0,0 @@
-#include <config.h>
-#include <cstdio>
-#include <cstdarg>
-
-#ifndef HAVE_DECL_VSNPRINTF
-#include "support/snprintf.h"
-#endif
-
-#include "LString.h"
-
-#ifndef CXX_GLOBAL_CSTD
-using std::va_list;
-#endif
-
-/* This output manipulator gives the option to use Old style format
-   specifications in ostreams. Note that this is done at the expense
-   of typesafety, so if possible this manipulator should be avoided.
-   When is it allowed to use this manipulator? I wrote it to be used
-   i18n strings and gettext, and it should only(?) be used in that
-   context.
-
-   Ad. the implementation. I have only tested this on egcs-2.91.66 with
-   glibc 2.1.2. So further testing is needed. The loop in fmt(...) will
-   usually spin one or two times, but might spin more times with older
-   glibc libraries, since the returned -1 when size is too small. Newer
-   glibc returns the needed size.
-   One problem can be that vsnprintf is not implemented on all archs,
-   but AFAIK it is part of the new ANSI C standard.
-
-   Lgb
-*/
-
-string fmt(char const * fmtstr ...)
-{
-	int size = 80;
-	char * str = new char[size];
-	va_list ap;
-	while (true) {
-		va_start(ap, fmtstr);
-		int const r = vsnprintf(str, size, fmtstr, ap);
-		va_end(ap);
-		if (r == -1) { // size is too small
-			delete [] str;
-			size *= 2; // seems quite safe to double.
-			str = new char[size];
-		} else if (r >= size) { // r gives the needed size
-			delete [] str;
-			size += r;
-			str = new char[size];
-		} else {
-			break;
-		}
-	}
-	string res(str);
-	delete [] str;
-	return res;
-}