Here's what I get on shell1.sourceforge.net, where I try to look into a Makefile problem under UNIX, reported by Steve Young. Is there still hope? Best regards, Adrian adriana＠usw-pr-shell1:~/hacking/xemacs-packages$ cvs status XEmacs.rules cvs server: failed to create lock directory in repository `/cvsroot/xemacs/XEmacs/xemacs-packages': No such file or directory cvs server: failed to obtain dir lock in repository `/cvsroot/xemacs/XEmacs/xemacs-packages' cvs [server aborted]: read lock failed - giving up adriana＠usw-pr-shell1:~/hacking/xemacs-packages$ cvs update -P -d ? *compilation* cvs server: Updating . cvs server: cannot open directory /cvsroot/xemacs/XEmacs/xemacs-packages: No such file or directory cvs server: skipping directory adriana＠usw-pr-shell1:~/hacking/xemacs-packages$ -- Adrian Aichner <adrian(a)xemacs.org&gt;