A J Rossini <arossini(a)biostat.washington.edu&gt; writes in xemacs-beta(a)xemacs.org: It is as alien a format as PNG is, relatively speaking. Of course on anything but Linux[1], Xpm is an alien format there too. I have yet to figure out how to build Xpm in one-pass on a system without either of: 1. A working xmkmf (it's unbelievable that vendors ship X11 without a functional xmkmf, no wonder Unix graphics gets a bad rap :-() 2. A previously installed Xpm (building sxpm and cxpm puke and die). Building PNG and zlib has gone without a hitch on all the systems I've tried it on. Footnotes: [1] Make that some installations of Linux. I thought PNG was a standard part of every Linux distribution, but I've already gotten a report about one where it is not.