On 20 Mar 2005, at 20:53, Michael Albinus wrote: Hi Michael. No, that didn't help. Nor did I expect it to because the process-connection-type issue was resolved with the release of Panther. OK, cool. That narrows the problem down much better: Invalid state: Bogus value for `default-process-coding-system', nil In top-level XEmacs, its value is: (undecided . raw-text) (btw, this all works properly in GNU Emacs, but I'm not sure if that's helpful information or not.) Andrew