>>>>> "Mike" == Mike Alexander <mta(a)arbortext.com&gt; writes: Mike> Several people have tried MKS Toolkit shell with this patch Mike> and found that it works fine, so I don't think that is the Mike> issue right now. A more interesting question is whether the Mike> patch interacts badly with your process patch. I looked at Mike> what you did and it looks like they should be ok together, Mike> and independent of each other, but I haven't actually tried Mike> them together. Hello Mike, please do if you can, now that XEmacs-21.1.8 (including my call-process patch) is available. Let me know if you find problems with my patch.