David> I'm presently using 21.1.13 on my NT box and my Win2k box. David> Is there any risk in installing the latest beta? That is, David> will installing the latest beta (in a different directory, David> of course) cause any problems with being able to run David> 21.1.13? Similarly, will the presence of 21.1.13 cause any David> problems with the latest beta? Can I use the same .emacs David> file and some local packages in both versions? I suppose David> it's likely I'll have to put some conditionals into my David> ".emacs" file. My .emacs looks like this: ;;; -*- Mode: Emacs-Lisp -*- ;;; This is $Id: .emacs,v 1.66 1999/04/18 22:25:08 aichner Exp $. ;;; Please do not edit this file! ;;; Edit the platform-dependant cutom-file instead. ;;; Adrian Aichner, Teradyne GmbH, 1999-03-30. (setq custom-file (format "%s-%s" user-init-file system-configuration)) (load-file custom-file) ;; End of .emacs This works for me because 21.1 uses "i386-pc-win32" while 21.2 used "i586-pc-win32" on Windows. I use the same packages for both though. I suppose you could try setting `pui-package-install-dest-dir' (buffer: *Hyper Apropos*, mode: Hyper-Apropos) Customizable user variable: value: nil *If non-nil (Automatic) path to package tree to install packages in. Otherwise, use old path for installed packages and make a guess for new ones. Property-list: custom-requests: nil custom-type: (choice (const :tag "Automatic" nil) (directory)) custom-tag: "Install Location" standard-value: (nil) to "~/.xemacs"although I have not tried this. Hope this helps, Adrian David> -- David> =================================================================== David> David M. Karr ; w:(425)487-8312 ; TCSI & Best Consulting David> dkarr(a)tcsi.com ; Java/Unix/XML/C++/X ; BrainBench CJ12P (#12004) -- Adrian Aichner mailto:adrian＠xemacs.org http://www.xemacs.org/