R> I recently purchased cygwin 1.0 from cygnus. It appears that the xemacs R> bundled with it does not seem to have c++-mode, c-mode, java-mode *.el and R> *.elc files. Could you please suggest how I can gain access to the R> respective *.el and associated *.elc files. Get the `sumo' package tarball from ftp://ftp.xemacs.org/pub/xemacs/packages/xemacs-sumo.tar.gz Also get xemacs-mule-sumo.tar.gz if your binaries are using the `Mule' feature. I predicted in private that this sort of thing would happen. There is such a legacy of being able to build *functional* software using the algorithm: get foo-n.m.tar.gz tar xzf foo-n.m.tar.gz cd foo-n.m configure make make install that it is entirely natural that people would omit including the packages, even if they are professional GNU software maintainers such as inhabit Cygnus. Also, people who did try to follow the instructions and use documented interfaces to install packages after installing the `core' XEmacs often failed (and reverted to 20.4, since that actually `worked'). Martin