while trying to use the view status function of pcl-cvs, i got this error (below). it looks like pcl-cvs requires mule, even though its not listed as a depends. i have all the "required" packages. is this the culprit (cvs-status.el)????: ;; chars sets. Ripped from cvstree (defvar cvstree-dstr-2byte-ready (when (featurep 'mule) (if (boundp 'current-language-environment) does this mean i need all of mule? i dont see mule.el even in mule-base. les schaffer Signaling: (file-error "Cannot open load file" "mule") load-internal("mule" nil t nil nil nil) load("mule" nil t nil) require(mule) load-internal("cvs-status" nil nil nil nil nil) load("cvs-status" nil nil nil) apply(load ("cvs-status" nil nil nil)) dired-handler-fn(load "cvs-status" nil nil nil) load-internal("cvs-status" nil nil nil nil nil) load("cvs-status" nil nil nil) cvs-status-mode() cvs-temp-buffer("status") cvs-mode-do("status" ("-v") nil :dont-change-disc t :show t :postproc nil) #<compiled-function nil "...(19)" [cvs-mode-do "status" flags nil :dont-change-disc t :show :postproc cvs-auto-remove-handled status (...)] 11>() #<compiled-function nil "...(15)" [commandp -cvs-mode!-fun call-interactively] 2>() cvs-mode!(#<compiled-function nil "...(19)" [cvs-mode-do "status" flags nil :dont-change-disc t :show :postproc cvs-auto-remove-handled status (...)] 11>) #<compiled-function (flags) "...(4)" [cvs-mode! #<compiled-function nil "...(19)" ... 11>] 2 ("/usr/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/pcl-cvs/pcl-cvs.elc" . 49672) (list (cvs-flags-query ... "cvs status flags"))>(("-v")) call-interactively(cvs-mode-status) ================== ;;;＠＠＠ (package-get-update-base-entry (quote (pcl-cvs (standards-version 1.1 version "1.47" author-version "R-2_9_9" date "2000-05-07" build-date "2000-07-10" maintainer "XEmacs Development Team <xemacs-beta(a)xemacs.org&gt;&quot; distribution xemacs priority low category "prog" dump nil description "CVS frontend." filename "pcl-cvs-1.47-pkg.tar.gz" md5sum "5b998b880b04935a415fffeb1991d64e" size 159934 provides (pcl-cvs generic-sc) requires (xemacs-base elib vc dired edebug edit-utils) type regular ===== Result for query 'pcl-cvs mule' Summary for query "pcl-cvs mule": Found 0 matches in 0 files.